day trip, with wrong tide, not too bad.

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Sometimes I wish we were closer to the beach. Got there 2 hours before high tide and had to leave an hour before low tide.
Took Tejon with 3.5 x 18 to hit the dry sand while tide was up. Had the CZ20 and SandShark along for the water as the tide was going out. The wet sand was pretty black, worst I've seen it at this beach; CZ ran out of ground balance adjustment over it so I took the Sandshark into the water. Wet sand was pretty soft and moving a lot under foot.

First picture is Tejon finds, second is SandShark finds in about knee to waist deep area. Both rings are junk. One of the dimes found in the water is worn down to it's copper center layer, but can still make out that it is a dime.

Fun day. $5.33 total clad count. Maybe next rings will be good ones!
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[Fabio]

When you hunt in the "wet" sand in low tide, where exactly is the best coastline to follow for best finds? All my finds came outside the sea water, and I've never found anything at all in the sea bed at low tide on sandy beaches. I've found some coins on stone beaches at low tide but nothing worth mentioning...
Nice finds.

 

[RickIowa2009]

A few finds

 

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Fabio,
I never got to low tide on Saturday, wish I could have stayed for it! Things seemed a little sanded in but there were definitely targets, sometimes there aren't many targets.

A lot depends on the sand and the day. A lot of jewelry gets lost in the water and that is where it is found, if it is ever found. Sometimes the sand moves in and buries things deeper than you can detect, other times the sand gets stripped off and you can find more. There are some people who follow coastal storms looking for the sand to be heavily cut so they can find long buried stuff. I bought my first waterproof detector from one of them.

I have found that the further out I get into the water, the fewer the targets get. But I dig almost no bottle caps in the water.

The best area changes based on conditions.
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