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Double Rainbow at Elbow Beach

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bdahunter

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Yesterday the wind and surf were running high at Horseshoe Bay so I decided to change venues and try hunting Elbow Beach instead. Elbow Beach has been a popular vacation spot for many centuries; Mark Twain used to come here in the late 1800's and more recently the film The Deep was shot here in the 1970's. (you'll most likely remember the wet T-shirt scene with Jacqueline Bisset). With the number of visitors this beach has seen I figured it was worth a shot at trying to find something interesting in the shallow surf, I say shallow because the drop off from knee deep to 8 feet deep is abrupt so you can only hunt the shallows without dive gear.
It was a beautiful afternoon at Elbow and I got down to hunting right away.

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The wet sand was the most productive area based on the targets I hit while running a zig zag pattern down the wet sand and the shallows, so I focused my energy on a nice dip in the beach. The targets became very focussed and I realized I had run into a honey hole; I couldn't even take a step without hitting the next target so I proceeded to dig and dig and dig some more. The clad count was crazy by the time this hunt ended:
2 x $1.00, 19 x quarters, 41 x dimes, 10 x nickels, 4 real pennies, plus several foreign coins and several keepers.

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There were a few older British coins - 1962 2 shillings,1955 six pence and a more modern 5 pence.

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Plus a bit of silver jewellery and a token by Pitt Vending.

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But the really interesting finds were 2 Mercury dimes 1944 & 1942, an 1887 Indian Head Penny and a Victorian era, Silver 3 Pence.

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I really like finding old tickets and they are generally hard to come by in Bermuda but today I hit the jack pot. As the wind continued to pick up and the thunder heads rolled in it was time to head for home but as I walked back to the parking lot I was greeted by a Double Rainbow. A perfect ending to a really fun hunt.:thumbup:

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Cheers All,

BDA:cool:
 
Bda, it's awesome to have found that honey hole. Can you share the conditions you've observed it to be? In other words, what currents and sand patterns did you observe that could have caused the accumulation of targets in one spot?

I was looking at surfdiggers vids and tried his theory on reading sand erosion and build up and scored a little plated ring.

Aloha, Ike
 
BDA, What a memorable day, all that's missing is some gold! That's a great location you are at for detecting too, I never knew that one could find so many older American coins in Bermuda but what do I know? Thanks for a great report! HH!
 
mynah said:
Bda, it's awesome to have found that honey hole. Can you share the conditions you've observed it to be? In other words, what currents and sand patterns did you observe that could have caused the accumulation of targets in one spot?

I was looking at surfdiggers vids and tried his theory on reading sand erosion and build up and scored a little plated ring.

Aloha, Ike
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The whole theory of sand movements and currents and how they effect the movement of targets is really as much an art as a science, Mate. I know that the wind has been driving the waves at a 45 degree angle to Elbow Beach (generally) for the past month (right to left when facing the ocean) and I saw a heavy cut at the far right of the beach and then a slight belly out into the water about 100 yards to the left of the cut. I reasoned that the sand that had been pulled out of the beach at the cut had been moved in the direction of the waves down the beach and deposited where the beach now bellied out. Realizing that the heavier than sand targets would lag behind the moving sand, I worked the pocket between the belly and the cut.
This is where the targets were grouped and they thinned out as I moved towards the belly or the cut, there were still targets but just not the heavy concentration of targets that I found in the pocket.
The first websites I check each day are the weather forecast, the wind forecast and the tide prediction (actually I keep a running tally of the tides in my head but I verify exact times and depth of tide out of habit). If you have this information you can develop an idea of which beaches to hunt based on orientation to the current conditions, otherwise you leave the whole thing to chance. This doesn't guarantee that you are going to find gold but everything you can do to increase your chances over the guy wandering around aimlessly at the beach, well that's a good thing in my mind.:thumbup:

Cheers,

BDA:cool:
 
Thank you for the in depth reply and your right in all aspects in that getting all available information (should) warrant the best results.

Aloha, Ike
 
n/t
 
It's been fun living in Bermuda for the past 6 years, our time here runs out at the end of the year. I'm looking forward to whatever comes next.:cool:
 
Hi bda; Question: How old is that silver ring. It looks like it could be very old. Good Luck. Peace:RONB
 
BARKER said:
Hi bda; Question: How old is that silver ring. It looks like it could be very old. Good Luck. Peace:RONB
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That silver ring has a Cancer the Crab, zodiac sign on it and it reminds me of the style I used to see in the 70's. So I would guess it is a couple of decades old but no more than that. Silver tends to take a really bad beating in the high saline of Bermuda waters, so silver tickets look older than they are - generally. If you can find silver that has been stuck up against some iron then it will be in good shape but otherwise it tends to be really rough.
 
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