Yesterday I opted to make the 1 hour drive to the other end of the island of Bermuda and try my luck at a beach I have never hunted - Fort St. Catherine's Beach. This beach is situated below, you guessed it, Fort St. Catherines. Fort St. Catherines is one of the older and larger forts on the island of Bermuda and as such a lot of stuff has been dumped over the walls and into the ocean for the last several centuries. So since it was the leeshore today I piled everything into the jeep and made the trip to St. Georges.
I stopped in at Tobacco Bay for a quick hunt as this is a beach that is heavily frequented by cruise ship tourists, unfortunately it was heavily sanded in and because of the wind direction there was also a heavy surf in what is normally a very tranquil bay. After an hour I only had some clad for my trouble and even those finds were really deep, so I bailed out of Tobacco Bay and headed down the road to my primary destination Fort St. Catherines.
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The last time I drove past Fort St. Catherines they were excavating huge RML's (rifled muzzle loaded cannons) out of the beach with tracked excavators so I was unable to hunt on that ocassion but today there was nobody around so I got into the water and started hunting. This beach is unusual for Bermuda because it has a lot of heavy rocks that form the bottom of the surf with a coating of soft Bermuda sand on top of it all. The stone would be the rubble left over from the construction process when the hewn rock was squared into building blocks for the fort; this made for some very tough digging. Lots of light targets in the water but not so much as a coin was within range of my CZ-21 so I pulled back to try the wet sand and that where I hit pay dirt - not gold and not silver but some really nice Sea Glass. There were plenty of really nice jewellery quality pieces that kept coming up in my scoop everytime I dug a target.
This beach is not known for its' sea glass, probably because it is buried so unless you dig you don't find it. All of the nice sea glass really slowed down metallic target retrieval but I did manage to find enough clad to cover my gas.
The real finds today were Sea Glass.
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I stopped in at Tobacco Bay for a quick hunt as this is a beach that is heavily frequented by cruise ship tourists, unfortunately it was heavily sanded in and because of the wind direction there was also a heavy surf in what is normally a very tranquil bay. After an hour I only had some clad for my trouble and even those finds were really deep, so I bailed out of Tobacco Bay and headed down the road to my primary destination Fort St. Catherines.
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The last time I drove past Fort St. Catherines they were excavating huge RML's (rifled muzzle loaded cannons) out of the beach with tracked excavators so I was unable to hunt on that ocassion but today there was nobody around so I got into the water and started hunting. This beach is unusual for Bermuda because it has a lot of heavy rocks that form the bottom of the surf with a coating of soft Bermuda sand on top of it all. The stone would be the rubble left over from the construction process when the hewn rock was squared into building blocks for the fort; this made for some very tough digging. Lots of light targets in the water but not so much as a coin was within range of my CZ-21 so I pulled back to try the wet sand and that where I hit pay dirt - not gold and not silver but some really nice Sea Glass. There were plenty of really nice jewellery quality pieces that kept coming up in my scoop everytime I dug a target.
This beach is not known for its' sea glass, probably because it is buried so unless you dig you don't find it. All of the nice sea glass really slowed down metallic target retrieval but I did manage to find enough clad to cover my gas. The real finds today were Sea Glass.
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