where to hunt after a cyclone

[thirdbornau]

Hi guys,
i am wondering if i could get some quick answers from the forum. We are expecting a cyclone today and it should be over by Monday and i was wondering as i live 5 mins from the beaches here,where is the best place to search on Monday ? is it at the waters edge,or in the wet sand or where the tide dropped stuff on the dry sand,any help will be absorbed and tried out.

Cheers Maureen..

 

[ivanll]

TC Anthony is on the way, make use of it.

http://www.findmall.com/read.php?27,1390907,1390916#msg-1390916

ivanll

 

[Dig]

My friend, First and foremost make sure you are safe to go out. After that enjoy the chance to detect those conditions as they can sometimes produce the chance to find things that have been buried for some time. A buddy of mine here in Florida some time back found a 9k engagement rig right after a passing hurricane.It really depends whether the storm piles sand on your beach or takes it away. It's usually the latter. It's going to take some experimentation and scouting, but I would say look for areas where sand has been ripped away. Either way be safe and happy hunting. Be sure to take pics and video to share!

 

[OldBeechnut]

If you have cuts, this maybe the best way to hunt..pictures..if the beach is flat or a slite slant ...targets can be any where..but mostly from the high tide lane to the lowtide lane..best hunting is by far during lowtide. Good Luck and wear a PFD always.

 

[erikk]

Assuming that you are able to hunt, check the big cuts that will be left from the wave/wind action on the beach. Till then keep your head down, move inland to higher ground if you are in a low area (5 minutes to the beach I would be heading inland FAST. Been there-done that and they are not fun!
(take a video)

 

[ivanll]

Hope yous got through TC Anthony safely.

Natures entertainment is on the way the big one is lurking out there, now might be a good time to find a safe and solid anchor point.

It'll be a ripper.

ivanll

 

[thirdbornau]

Hi Beachnut, thanks for the great photos that is the first time that i have seen cuts really well explained, and the white lines i still don't make a lot of sense to me but i roughly get the picture.As i looked at the photo i thought gee those cuts are almost the whole beach.

Another thing we don't have tiny beaches like that here in Ozz they are massive the sand goes back so far it makes searching a real challenge i wonder that i find anything at all. When i get time i will post a photo of a typical beach in Australia.

We must have been in a bubble with the cyclone we knew nothing about it and it came down from a category 4 to a 1 so that was lucky.

keep your eye on this space for the beach photo and thanks for all the tips guys.

Cheers Maureen..

 

[thirdbornau]

Hi guys,
as promised here is a picture of Broome beach,as you see it's very wide how would you fancy searching on this Beach it's like looking for a needle in a hay stack.

cheers Maureen..H.H..

 

[bcoop]

n/t

 

[Islandpaddler]

Maureen,

Last weekend here in NZ we had the tail end of Cyclone Wilma pass over us. All this meant where I live was some large swells and very heavy rain, but it was that rain that opened up treasure troves on the beaches I hunt. Any run off and drain swept across the sand cutting channels 1m deep, in some places removing the sand down to the clay base. The channels weren't very wide with some of them hardly enough to move the coil but they uncovered areas that were literally carpeted with old coins dating from the 1960's down to 1844.

There was nothing much below the high tide mark, all the finds were in what was the dry sand area. I found no jewelry but did come away with a gold sovereign which made up for it. Now a week later the cuts are slowly filling in and although I am finding the odd coin in them they are not the bonanza of last week.

So if you had at least some of the rain in your area from the cyclone, take a look - you could be surprised!.

 

[thirdbornau]

Hi paddler,
it sounds really interesting can you post a picture of the cuts you are talking about? i have a real problem identifying them i guess i expect them to be big so that you can pick them easy but i never see cuts like the guys here in the forum talk about maybe i am expecting too muchcan anybody post a picture of a cut on the Beach.

cheers Maureen

 

[Islandpaddler]

Hi Maureen,
I have only been detecting for a month and a half so please take my recommendations below with a pinch of salt. But I have spent my life on beaches and in that month and a half have put in over 150hrs detecting . The beaches here on Waiheke very rarely get any large noticeable cuts like the guys are talking about above - but there are alternatives. Here's a couple of pics I took this morning to help explain things. Please excuse the quality they where taken at early dawn and the light wasn't the best.

The first one is off the channels I was meaning that are caused by heavy rain. The smaller channels have already been filled in by wind, tide and kids (they just have to jump on the sides and collapse them). This one is from a drain where the sand is normally beach level, you can see how much it has cut into the beach by the height of the banks along the sides. Anywhere along the flat bit of the bed yielded coins. On your beach there must be somewhere where water drains from the land and onto the sand - this is where to hunt after a heavy rain. Of course if it always looks like this then there will be little to find - you need the water from the land run off to flush the channel deeper then it normally is.

The next pic might be more applicable to your beach. At low tide stand at one end of the beach and look along it. Low spots will become obvious from either pools of water like in this shot or the sand being darker from either being wet or having more black sand content. Even if the low spot is only 10cm lower then the surrounding area and only looks like a very slight dip, it means your detector can now hunt 10 cm deeper.

Gold, silver, coins etc are all fairly heavy and "streamlined". This means they sink fast in sand and gravity will keep heading down until something stops them like base clay, rock or slow down with hard packed sand. This is why I found the base of the channels I was hunting carpeted with coins - the rain we had were the heaviest since 1970 so it exposed areas that hadn't seen daylight for 40 years and areas where the coins couldn't sink any deeper because they had reached the clay base below the sands.

Hope this helps!