treasure coast

[rotceted]

have not posted on this forum i usually am on e trac looking for some advice. Wife and I are planning on a vacation sometime in November for 2 weeks we live in minnesota and are looking to go to Florida. She wants to hang out on the beach... im thinking metal detecting. Never been their and always hear about treasure coast... I hear a lot of stories about the area and wonder if it really is worth spending time there. Any suggestions on an area to go and a place to stay we are open to camping also or somewhere not too expensive but clean. any suggestions on hunting area and place to stay would be much appreciated thanks in advance also open to any other area Don

 

[Finderskeeper]

Try this for info on the treasure coast.......http://treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com/

I spent a week on the treasure coast this last winter...all the beaches I hit and found just a few fishing lures. I've been at the treasure coast several times in the past and found very little. The sand is so deep that it is almost impossible to find anything of value on the treasure coast lately. Even the old timers don't detect there until there is a storm or hurricane. Then the targets are everywhere.

I won't say don't waste your time, but it is very difficult to find anything of value on the treasure coast. Most places you cannot go into the water with a detector so dry and wet sand is all you can detect. Your best bet is to detect the busier beaches. Most beaches on the treasure coast are not busy like the beaches on the Gulf coast. Several days detecting on the treasure coast beaches and I saw one person. I had the beaches to myself!

If you do go, check out the McClarty treasure museum. And if you are near Sebastian Florida, check out the Mel Fisher Museum.

 

[rotceted]

thank you very much for the info

 

[M]

Yeah, the name is evocative of certain 'potential' that might have existed in 1960, but really doesn't in 2011.
After a big storm, guys come from everywhere to hit Wabasso, etc, but even then, it still ain't the good old days.

The reason a detectorist might want to go there has nothing to do with finding lost junk, everything to do with hitting that blackened and sea-worn Reale... Yes, your chances are a lot higher there than at some random point elsewhere in the state. I mean, it isn't like fleets of treasure ships broke up at every single point along the Florida coast...

There are only a few places with realistic potential to get a cob, even if the odds are still well against you. If hitting something old is what you're after, that's one of the better places to go (unless they magically open up Cape Canaveral National Seashore someday, where shipwreck treasure is still VERY common... )