beach noobie fla jan recap aprox 20 hrs

[scrounger d detector collector]

back home now in snow which sux. finally get the camera and finds

together.

i really didnt spend anywhere near the time i wanted to detecting.

but i had a great time and feel priv just to be out there.

hotel peeps said low volume on tourists even in hard winter

so the economy really sux.

mebbe the finds might have been better too.

i make it 276 coins plus jewelry and junk.

there be 36 quarters.58 dimes.22 nickels and 150 pennies.

the bimetallic are 1 dollar car wash tokens plus 4 game tokens.

only foreign was a 1 lek israel.

gold lookin earring might be but needs checkin.

i really gave it my all out there.

i was in the water in about 58 degree water temps. and stayed

out there a lot even though the finds were a LOT fewer out there

HOPING TO HIT THE GOLD !

but ill be darned i was gonna learn how to water hunt in ocean surf

or freez solid tryin..

give a lot to be back there jus now..darn snow

 

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[desertfox]

Not bad for your first time in the water! When are you going back?

 

[scrounger d detector collector]

thanks. but i explain about half from dry sand. i couldnt stand being

out there all day due to cold. and a couple times it was too rough.

the waves were higher a few times and forced me to come in,

after battering me a bit. i figured well, i need to learn to do it in rough

seas but it just was too much.

water finds were with the hh pirate which really is not made to hunt

salt. so i grabbed a used white surfmaster 2 and did quire a bit better

with it. tho the depth was not impressive. and it hunt the wet sand and waterline ok.

tesoro silver on the dry sand ok. had the etrac along and the conditions

drove it nuts. i couldnt find the manual to put it in beach mode

til the last day. im not sure why as i used it on the east coast bch

last year in regular mode worked fine. even in the surf. i know dont lecture

takin the expensive baby out there where one dunk could be

disaster. just had to try it. scubatreasure showed up with his excal

and now i see. WHOA . blows the doors off everything else.

would love to go back early march. theres an organized hunt at the treasure

coast about then. well see

 

[DaChief]

Not sure on how high you had your discriminate set but it looks like there was plenty of stuff to be found. If I didn't see the couple of small earrings in the pile, I would say that you may be too high on the discriminate setting to find gold but I am not sure. Looks like if gold had been there, you most probably would have found it though.

You can only do what you can within your power to find gold. If it is not there, you can't make it happen. Looks like you were doing your part. Keep hunting that way and it will surely come.

Good luck.

DaChief

 

[scrounger d detector collector]

YEAH I KNOW u have to use very little or no discrim to find gold.

probably the gold was out there but deeper than the machines

i was using can detect. i need an excal ! being cold the place prob had been hammered and no recent drops.

i saw VERY FEW people in the water and no other detectorists.except on land.

 

[TreasurdiggrNY]

Congrats on the finds Nice mix and haul from in and out of the surf

 

[COTTON]

Congrats.