Shifting Sands???

[OUTATIME]

I went huntin again this weekend but came up empty handed, well I did find some stuff that looked like it came out of a bubble gum machine, but that was about it.

I noticed the beach has changed considerably. The week before I got the Excalibur, the beach was high with lots of sand; then we had the negative low tides and afterwards, I guess the sand got washed away.

Now the whole beach just sort of gently slopes down to the water. Where before the beach was full of ridges and sharp slopes etc. etc.

I would think that with all the sand gone that now would be the time to find stuff, but I'm not getting many hits at all, not even coins.

Did the ocean suck all the goodies out along with the sand?
Is the sand moving off the beach normal during the winter?
Will the rings and stuff be pushed back on the beach when the sand is pushed back onto the beach?
When will the sand be pushed back onto the beach?
Too many questions!!!

Any help would be greatly appreciated
Mark

 

[BEACH HUNTER]

that sinks to the hard pan when the sand gets pounded by waves.zig zag the beach from high tide line to low tide line till you hit a coin line the go very slow.rarely does the good stuff get pulled out it just sinks!!winter hunting rules!!!storms move sand uncover LOOT!!!

 

[OUTATIME]

I'm in Georgia. I did the zig zag thing and then slowed down anytime I found a coin, then proceeded to search in a circular pattern all around the coin, but never could find anything else around any of these finds.

I'm wondering if I should get in the water and stop searching the wet sand so much??

Thanks
Mark in GA

 

[willia in tex.]

where i hunt 'galveston' gentle sloping beaches don't produce much. i usually don't go back until the beach changes. usually about a month. this is usually what it takes to start producing the new trough's and cuts under normal conditions. if your beach has a beach cam look at the color of the waves, if they look clean not much sand is moving if they look dirty then quite a lot of sand is moving. wave models are another source of good information, they give you the height of the waves and direction there moving. waves moving at an angle to the beach seem to remove sand faster. i pay attention to wave direction more than anything. NDBC-STATIONS are another good source of wave information. I don't pay any attention to low or high tides until winter. here it seems water is higher at low tides than at high tide simply because the winds always seem to comes up at the time of low tides. Yesterday I went to the beach in the middle of a storm because i knew there was a good chance of finding something. i started hunting where the slope was the steepest, I dug lots of targets for three hours, then I took a break About 20 minutes I went back to where i found a gold ring and conditions had totally change, instead of the sand being firm it was soft, meanning sand being deposited, so i started watching the waves and where one wave was running off the beach and the one comming on, where they met they left there sand. what i'm trying to say is sand being taken away from the beach would meet the sand comming on to the beach and where they met they stopped. and covered up the targets. this happens every day sand being taken off and sand being deposited. in the summer time more sand is being deposited than taken off in the winter just the opposite. this is why winter hunting is better. what happens in between gentle slopes is my guess. i hate them. hh