Kinda tired of Toe Rings :ranting: but Got Gold

[OUTATIME]

I'm kinda gettin tired of toe rings, got freakin twelve of the stupid things. Two of em were identical! Maybe I'll open me up a toe ring stand at the beach around spring time and sell them back to the people that lost 'em.

Anyway, got two or three gold items.

1 Gold ring with seven VERY small diamonds in it.

1 white gold chain 14k with a ring(silver I think) attached to it.

1 Gold dental "bling bling".

16 earrings - mostly junk, one of these caught my attention though. Looked like it was going to be gold with 4 diamonds in it. Turned out to be silver with four CZ's-- oh well. Got me going for awhile anyway.

1 silver necklace

and other assorted coins and junk. Not a bad day at all, lot's of fun!

Happy Huntin and Merry Christmas to All!

Mark Conner

 

[Gulf Hunter]

Better git out the buoys and grid that sucker. You got a lot of work to do and you don't want to miss a thing. Is that chain gold on the far right side? Looks aweful fine and you got it with an Excal? It had no medallion on it? Great haul man!

 

[OUTATIME]

Actually all of this was found right down the middle of the beach at low tide, just a few feet on either side of the line and nothing!

As for the chain on the far right, it's silver. It was notted up on one end, I'm thinkin maybe that's why the Excal got it. Although I do pick up alot of VERY small items with the excal, but fine chains are few and far between. But hey I've only been beach huntin for three months now, and I still havn't gone in the water with it except for one time.

The chain with the ring attached to it it white gold. says 14k.

Thanks Gulf Hunter


Mark Conner

 

[Gulf Hunter]

n/t

 

[Mike (Virginia Beach)]

I always know where I'll find it...same place I always find it...and right where he found it...wet sand at low tide, water's edge. It's strange to me when folks act surprised that we find so much stuff in the wet sand...a dozen diamond rings for me this summer, all right there where he found this stuff. I guess all beaches are different, as to where the goodies are. I've spent a good amount of time in the water here and found very little. The wet sand on the other hand has yielded BIG returns.

 

[Foiled Again Jim in NC]

all different times. It changes, sometimes radically, everyday. I never know where I'm going to hunt when I walk out on the beach. If the bottom of the beach is sanded in, I hunt up top. If there is a hole in the surf I hunt it. If the waves are big then the bottom of the beach will not even show and you have to hunt from mid beach up. When the waves are large during high tide at full or new moon it drags the sand from the top of the beach to the bottom of the beach covering up everything down below. You could hunt the water line at low tide till your arm fell off and find nothing. You don't dictate where and when you will find the treasure, the beach does.

 

[Foiled Again Jim in NC]

n/t

 

[OUTATIME]

Usually the hard part is finding the coin line. After I find this, all I have to do is stay on a straight course, never veering more than about ten feet on either side. It's amazing that 'almost' everything is in a straight line???

Mark

 

[Mike (Virginia Beach)]

I fully agree with everything you said. At my beach, the majority of the good finds are in the wet sand at low tide at the water's edge. If it's not showing up there I will adjust up or down until I do find it. When I find it I follow it. My point is that to be surprised that there's good stuff found in the wet sand is nuts to me. I found 4 diamond rings in two nights this past summer in the wet sand. I spent the better part of one day in the water that same weekend and found almost nothing. Back to the wet sand, more gold and tons of coins.

Down in Florida the few times I hunted there I hunted the wet sand until I was blue in the face and found nothing to speak of. Went in the water, nothing much there. My sister and all her friends were hunting the dry sand and when I did too there it all was. Wasn't much swimming going on there, come to think of it. Like none. Lots of sunbathing though.

Here, in the summer, you can see 100,000 people down in the wet sand and shallow water and a good number not far out, swimming and frolicking. At low tide all of the stuff they drop ends up near the water's edge or in the middle, between the water and the top of the wet sand line. And of course when cuts form, that's wet sand territory too and they always produce well here. For about 6 summers now here I have done very well hunting that area almost exclusively. When I try getting out in the water a ways my results are lukewarm. In the dry sand, a little better. In the wet sand at low tide, smokin' hot. You go with what works at your beach.

 

[Mike (Virginia Beach)]

It is amazing, isn't it? And the stuff seems to sort out by weight as well. And when you start finding the nickels and the quarters, soon after the gold rings. Of course not as plentiful. I've run into a lot of people for whom the whole concept of "the coin line" is alien...they've never experienced it. And at a number of beaches, I've not always found one. Fortunately, that's my guide here and there's ALWAYS one there if you look.

 

[bdahunter]

In Bermuda, the surrounding reefs tend to knock down the wave action and the coin lines form differently from the open coast where you usually hunt Mike. It's only a variation on the same theme though as things still sort out by weight but they tend to sort out in the water. Find that coin line which usually runs perpendicular from the beach and you can follow it to the gold.
It's a bit of a puzzle hunting under these conditions as you have to look for the patterns in the sand under the water to find out where the currents have sorted the loot by weight and drag.
Coins tend to move around a lot more than jewellery as they catch more of the force from the current as the water pushes back out to sea.
This approach has worked well for me so far and would be a practical approach in sheltered hunting areas in the U.S..
I would really like to hunt a beach like Virginia Beach sometime, perhaps in the New Year.
I agree with you completely Mike, go with what works for your beach conditions.

Cheers,

BDA

 

[Mike (Virginia Beach)]

Yes, I noticed that about the Bahamas as well...not much in the way of waves. So very little wet sand action. And in Florida, there was no "brought in" sand. Here, our entire beach is brought in sand...about 100+ yards of it...replenished continuously. So it means that unline Atlantic City and other older US beaches, you can't hardly BUY an old silver coin here...unless it's after a hurricane. And there's nearly always heavy surf, so the wet sand deposits are usually much better. I would love for you to hunt here too. Plan something between July 1 and September 1 for best results.