Winter tides move the sand around at the local beaches and then seasonal storms stir it around more, so a hunter has to keep checking how things are from time to time.
This morning I decided to visit a nearby beach where I found a couple of nice gold rings last year.
The beach is split in two by a breakwater and the sand is piled up against the stone wall for maybe 50 feet farther out than it was when I found the ring last year.
In years past I have walked on hard pan and cobble stones where there is three or four feet of sand now!
Some parts of the subsurface are covered with less than a foot of sand and on the other side of the breakwater (jetty) there is a larger expanse of water, but once I got maybe fifteen or twenty feet away from the water's edge I found the sand beyond a foot deep and getting deeper as I got farther away from dry land!
I spent most of the 4+ hours in the water searching parallel to the sandy beach in a loose grid pattern.
I found a couple of nickles and ignored most of the low-hi signals which avoided extra digging and clad coins.
Odd bits of pop-top aluminum and can shards were added to the collection and I soon added the second crematory tag of my hunting career!
It will be dropped in deep water when I get my old fishing boat out there soon
I found a brass religious medallion and less than a foot away another in silver on what seems to be a silver chain although it has some golden highlights in the sunlight!
There is no clasp to look for makers marks.
I moved to the second half of the split beach to see if it was worth the effort or not and soon added 5 more nickles to my take!
PI detectors see nickles in about the same way they see gold and give me hope that when I pass over gold I will get the same response!!
I think of the nickles as each one being a promise for future treasure!
I dug up another chain that looks to be silver complete with clasp.
A couple of iron bits and bottle-caps rounded out the take for the day!
In the water at about 6:30 AM and out at 10:30 makes for a stiff workout for these winter softened old muscles, but it felt good!
It felt good until a customer called to ask where I was and why hadn't I been at his house at 8 AM as we had agreed? (I forgot to put it on my calender!!)
Fortunately the job could be (carefully) rescheduled, but the emergency calls and the afternoon scheduled work could not be ignored!!
It's now 6:15 PM and I have had enough for one day!
GL&HH Friends,
CJ
This morning I decided to visit a nearby beach where I found a couple of nice gold rings last year.
The beach is split in two by a breakwater and the sand is piled up against the stone wall for maybe 50 feet farther out than it was when I found the ring last year.
In years past I have walked on hard pan and cobble stones where there is three or four feet of sand now!
Some parts of the subsurface are covered with less than a foot of sand and on the other side of the breakwater (jetty) there is a larger expanse of water, but once I got maybe fifteen or twenty feet away from the water's edge I found the sand beyond a foot deep and getting deeper as I got farther away from dry land!
I spent most of the 4+ hours in the water searching parallel to the sandy beach in a loose grid pattern.
I found a couple of nickles and ignored most of the low-hi signals which avoided extra digging and clad coins.
Odd bits of pop-top aluminum and can shards were added to the collection and I soon added the second crematory tag of my hunting career!
It will be dropped in deep water when I get my old fishing boat out there soon
I found a brass religious medallion and less than a foot away another in silver on what seems to be a silver chain although it has some golden highlights in the sunlight!
There is no clasp to look for makers marks.
I moved to the second half of the split beach to see if it was worth the effort or not and soon added 5 more nickles to my take!
PI detectors see nickles in about the same way they see gold and give me hope that when I pass over gold I will get the same response!!
I think of the nickles as each one being a promise for future treasure!
I dug up another chain that looks to be silver complete with clasp.
A couple of iron bits and bottle-caps rounded out the take for the day!
In the water at about 6:30 AM and out at 10:30 makes for a stiff workout for these winter softened old muscles, but it felt good!
It felt good until a customer called to ask where I was and why hadn't I been at his house at 8 AM as we had agreed? (I forgot to put it on my calender!!)
Fortunately the job could be (carefully) rescheduled, but the emergency calls and the afternoon scheduled work could not be ignored!!
It's now 6:15 PM and I have had enough for one day!
GL&HH Friends,
CJ
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