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:usaflag: Wind Blew The Low Tide Way Down!!

C

Cupajo

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I've mentioned the "Rock Garden" many times in my posts and posted a few pics of the area, but the water has dropped so far I was able to get some decent shots of just how stoney this area is.

Much of the year these stones are under sand from a light covering to a foot or more deep.

It's that way along much of Connecticut's shoreline, but the stones are especially shallow here.

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The bad part? You have to dig hard to recover any target.

The good part? Most targets don't sink very far.

Seagulls in the pics give you a reference as to the size of the stones.

GL&HH Friends,

CJ
 
The Bronx isn't that far away :detecting:
 
I can see why you like that place so much...very peaceful looking in the winter! Bet you can dink around there all day without any interruptions except for the low and subtle tones! Thanks for letting us have a look at your rock garden!
Mud
 
You are all welcome to share my hunting grounds Friends!!:thumbup:

I rarely see more than 3-4 "outsiders" a year!:clapping:

Gotta tell Ya though, it ain't easy!!:thumbdown:

No one alive has hunted these waters more than I!!:detecting:

So you're welcome to anything you can find!!!!:lol:

CJ
 
Let me clear up a mis-conception!

The things I found today were recovered a couple of hundred feet down the beach from where these pics were taken!

I prefer to hunt with a little bit of sand covering the stones so I don't lose my footing trying to wade among them!

The small amount of depth I lose isn't as important as me being able to stay on my feet!

Many thanks for your kind replies Friends,

CJ
 
Cupajo... Thanks for sharing this special occurrence. (I hope you didn't spend all of your time taking pictures.)

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This is a "true story" that happened to me back in the late seventies / early eighties on a beach north of Boston...

I was hunting this beach with my Uncle early on a Spring morning. The weather was warm, the tide was going out, and the beach had only a few people out walking. During this hunt I had the opportunity to experience an (unexpected) exceptionally low tide very similar to your low tide event.

When detecting I have a habit of hunting the beach and chasing the tide out as it recedes. At what was normally the area of the low tide line ... "one wave" seemed to go out, and out, and out as I watched it recede. Before my eyes I saw where the color of the beach sand changed from brown sand, to gray sand, to black sand with stones sticking up out of the sand. Within a matter of seconds the receding tide looked like it opened up approximately fifty yards of beach that I had never seen before. While looking at this occurrence it appeared as though the beach where I was standing was barely higher than were the water line was. It looked like about only an inch or two of height difference.

While detecting this newly uncovered area of beach my first signal turned out to be a thick, round black ball of sand. After breaking the ball open I found it contained a silver coin. Needless to say I didn't through any of those away when I found them and saved the rest to open up when I got home... rather than waste any time on the beach opening them. That morning I found that almost every signal I had recovered from this low point on the beach was either a fishing weight, silver coin or ring.

But as all good things must come to an end... approximately five to ten minutes after the tide had gone out this great distance... it came back in on a single wave and covered the fifty yards or so of beach that it had previously revealed to me.

Knowing what I was about to loose with the changing tide... I continued to quickly hunt in the cold, rising water (shoes, long pants and all) until the water reached my knees. Then I called it quits and went back to my car to warm up and dry off. While thinking of what had just occurred I realized that I had just witnessed a natural occurrence on the beach that I had never seen before... and would probably never see again.

Since that time I have watch the tide calendars for the astronomical low tides and have been on the beaches when they occurred... and I have never seen the ocean fall to that low level again. I guess that's what they mean when they say "being in the right place at the right time" can make all of the difference.

I'm embarrassed to say that I do not recall the exact quantity of the items that I had found on the beach that day, but I do know that I found a handful of rings (gold and silver) numerous black balls with silver coins enclosed, and a ton of fishing weights.

I'm sorry... I know without pictures this does not mean much... but I feel comfort in knowing that I can still visualize it in my head like I was still there. :)

-NEBeachcomber
 
We are privileged to witness such events when we get "out there" as often as we can.

Thanks for the story NEBC!

Ocean dynamics are more powerful than they are along the relitively sheltered Long Island Sound shoreline.

Lots of sand can be moved around over night, but nothing like you described in so short a time frame.

Regards,

CL
 
nice lookin hunting grounds ya got there CJ :thumbup: I hunt these areas as well, can get super old stuff outta spots like that.
I'd love to join ya for a hunt but it's a bit far to swim :laugh:.
lazyaussie
 
Thanks for your reply My Aussie Friend!

I'd love to share a hunt with you too!

I'll bet swimming through the Panama Canal would be a tough one!:biggrin:

As for the rest-------------:beers:

Regards,

CJ
 
Ain't no place ta be "barefootin it" for sure!!:thumbdown:

Lots a treasure among those stones (I hope!!)!

Finding it and diggin it out takes some doin.

,
GL&HH Friend,

CJ
 
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