This is a late post from our trip to Ixtapa/Zihuatanejo. I got a Minelab Excalibur just before the trip and got most of this stuff in the salt water. I was too cheap to buy a long handled sand scoop, so I made one from the exhaust pipe of a semi and a piece of stainless pipe from the corner of the shop. Between the Excal and the scoop it was a cinch that I wasn't going to float away.
I wasn't having the best of luck when I ran into a guy I have seen down there detecting on previous trips, he said this year was lousy because the small waves bring soft sand in and the targets get buried too deep. He said a couple of weeks of big waves would carry out the soft sand and make the targets easier to get. This is due to the fact that the "base" material on the beach is crushed shell fragments. Over time the coins and jewelry sink through the sand and stop there.
I don't know if he was blowing smoke or not but it sounded good to me. I sort of believe him because one day I carefully diguised myself as a stupid tourist drinking beer and watched him work for about 150 yards at the water's edge and he didn't get anything. That made me feel a little better.
I didn't get a lot of detecting time (family trip) but it was great fun and a learning experience for sure. I even got the boot at one beach! That's another story.....
I wasn't having the best of luck when I ran into a guy I have seen down there detecting on previous trips, he said this year was lousy because the small waves bring soft sand in and the targets get buried too deep. He said a couple of weeks of big waves would carry out the soft sand and make the targets easier to get. This is due to the fact that the "base" material on the beach is crushed shell fragments. Over time the coins and jewelry sink through the sand and stop there.
I don't know if he was blowing smoke or not but it sounded good to me. I sort of believe him because one day I carefully diguised myself as a stupid tourist drinking beer and watched him work for about 150 yards at the water's edge and he didn't get anything. That made me feel a little better.
I didn't get a lot of detecting time (family trip) but it was great fun and a learning experience for sure. I even got the boot at one beach! That's another story.....
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I was in Mexico last year an my metal detector didn't work boy
