What Could Be Worse Than a Pulltab? - - - These Bloody Things!:veryangry:

[bdahunter]

I've been hunting one of the old beaches at the Luxury Hotel next door. This beach is on a sheltered bay but when a CAT 4 or 5 Hurricane blows through, what's really sheltered?? Lots of boats have pulled free of their moorings in these hurricanes and been tossed up onto this beach and smashed to smithereens so when hunting there I find a lot of boat parts which are easy to identify as trash and remove to clear the field. The nasty item that comes up in my scoop is the brass grommet from tarps and dodgers and biminis. These buggers sound just like a fat gold ring, same volume, shape and conductivity, I Hate Them!! (gold rings shown for scale)
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So far this old beach has produced the 'Godless Quarter and a 1912 King George V Half Penny as well as a ton of junk but I'm not complaining, Much!
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Each layer of junk I strip out brings me closer to the old gold and hopefully my holy grail, A GOLD COIN! A lot of history off this beach, before it was a hotel, there were worker's barracks for the Royal Naval Dockyard and before that a Cat House to service the seaman who ran contraband through this bay because the Customs House was at the other end of the island, it would also be a safe haven for Spanish Treasure Ships making the turn towards Spain from the New World as well as a Pirate Haven for pirates waiting on those same treasure ships. Hopefully, I'll get lucky and find my gold coin.

Cheers,

BDA

 

[Mat in MA]

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[Chi Town Bruce]

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[bdahunter]

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The Spanish and the Porteguese landed here in the 1500's but never stayed, Bermuda was known to mariner's as the Island of Devils. French, Dutch and British Pirates often used Eli's Harbour about 2 miles up the road from me to careen their boats and scrape off the growth off the bottom of the hulls of their pirate ships. A fouled bottom makes for a slow pirate ship which means a poor pirate when your quarry gets away or a dead pirate if you can't out run the man-of-war that's chasing you. To put into Bermuda meant finding a way through the barrier reef (known to only a few) and dealing with your superstitous crew, but that's better than facing a hurricane on the open sea in an old wooden ship.

Cheers,

BDA

 

[Gulf Hunter]

Yeah, we get a some of those around here too bda, they sound pretty sweet huh? Best of luck on the gold coin mate!

 

[Martin(Qc)]

Several of the old beaches are littered with those. That and the metal parts that were used with the old bathing caps and bathing suits ! By the way, you can scratch 1911 from the list of potential dates for your quarter. (in 1911 the DEI GRA inscription was forgotten).

 

[Boston Bob]

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[Arkie John]

...and find a three-foot cut and just be in heaven!!!

Keep diggin'! Remember; you live in Paradise already. <><

aj

 

[PaPa-Joe-Fla.]

I hate the little ones that fall thru the scoop, but they do keep yout heart rate up.

 

[mrowdy]

The only thing worse than finding a pull tab is finding one that was thrown there by a previous MDer. And I'm sure you've seen it also.