hunter434
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We are going to the Outer Banks of NC in march.If i find a 3 or 4 foot piece off a wooden ship can i keep it?
Can you keep parts of old wooden ships found on the beach
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Tom_in_CA
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Well, I'll let someone else speak to the specifics of *just* that particular beach (if someone says that beach, inparticular, has issue with detecting for example). But when you say piece of wooden ship, I'm assuming perhaps this is something perhaps eyeballed (not necessarily even metal, for instance). Then in that case, I would have to wonder if you're not running afoul of verbage that is usually at all public locations, on any level: Verbage which has things to forbid "harvesting" or "collecting" and "taking". You know, laws and text that way pre-date detecting, and was/is put in place at any public place, so that no numbskull thinks he can back up his truck, and start harvesting all the tan box in the playground, for use in his own backyard. Or taking all the roses from the rose-garden, to sell at the market. Or you know the old addage that if a beach is pretty because it is covered with pretty rocks, then guess what happens if every tourist takes "just one pretty rock"? The after awhile, the beach isn't pretty anymore. Doh!
Now were those rules ever meant to apply to a little kid taking home a few seashells for his grade school art project? No. But if you asked enough lawyers and rangers "can I?" I'm sure you find one to tell you, that technically .... no. Did anyone really care if the little kid picked up the seashells? No, of course not. And thus could such verbage (and perhaps cultural heritage verbage) stop hunter434 from picking up and taking a piece of a ship, or a piece of driftwood, or coin from detecting? Sure, if you asked enough bureaucrats, you could be told you can't even take a memorial penny from the sandbox (it belongs to the city now, afterall, as it was on their land, and your "taking" it constitutes "harvesting" perhaps). But did anyone really care? Probably not.
My rule of thumb is that as long as it's not an obvious historic monument, and you're not wearing bright yellow in front of archies. But, you're on a forum where some people think you need permission to hunt modern city sandboxes, and will go out of their way to find "no's". So you'll probably get someone to find something to morph to tell you "no". And once we proceed down that route, there comes a point where we can all find text to disallow all detecting that we do (except on private land?) Yet the reality is: detecting (and picking up pieces of wood) goes on all the time, and no one really cares unless you were being a nuisance, ripping up sensitive wrecks, etc....
Well, I'll let someone else speak to the specifics of *just* that particular beach (if someone says that beach, inparticular, has issue with detecting for example). But when you say piece of wooden ship, I'm assuming perhaps this is something perhaps eyeballed (not necessarily even metal, for instance). Then in that case, I would have to wonder if you're not running afoul of verbage that is usually at all public locations, on any level: Verbage which has things to forbid "harvesting" or "collecting" and "taking". You know, laws and text that way pre-date detecting, and was/is put in place at any public place, so that no numbskull thinks he can back up his truck, and start harvesting all the tan box in the playground, for use in his own backyard. Or taking all the roses from the rose-garden, to sell at the market. Or you know the old addage that if a beach is pretty because it is covered with pretty rocks, then guess what happens if every tourist takes "just one pretty rock"? The after awhile, the beach isn't pretty anymore. Doh!
Now were those rules ever meant to apply to a little kid taking home a few seashells for his grade school art project? No. But if you asked enough lawyers and rangers "can I?" I'm sure you find one to tell you, that technically .... no. Did anyone really care if the little kid picked up the seashells? No, of course not. And thus could such verbage (and perhaps cultural heritage verbage) stop hunter434 from picking up and taking a piece of a ship, or a piece of driftwood, or coin from detecting? Sure, if you asked enough bureaucrats, you could be told you can't even take a memorial penny from the sandbox (it belongs to the city now, afterall, as it was on their land, and your "taking" it constitutes "harvesting" perhaps). But did anyone really care? Probably not.
My rule of thumb is that as long as it's not an obvious historic monument, and you're not wearing bright yellow in front of archies. But, you're on a forum where some people think you need permission to hunt modern city sandboxes, and will go out of their way to find "no's". So you'll probably get someone to find something to morph to tell you "no". And once we proceed down that route, there comes a point where we can all find text to disallow all detecting that we do (except on private land?) Yet the reality is: detecting (and picking up pieces of wood) goes on all the time, and no one really cares unless you were being a nuisance, ripping up sensitive wrecks, etc....
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Patfoundit
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Nice piece of driftwood, Congrats, is what I would say. Now if you come back with a backhoe you might be crossing the line. I'm from South Carolina originally, I remember back in the late 70's and early 80's, metal detecting Serf Side and Myrtle Beach. There was all sorts of stuff washed up after storms (before they bulldozed the original sand dunes) It went home and became part of a good collection (stuff I threw in my "treasure box") I agree with tom, As long as it's not an obvious piece of history, it's just a piece of one of the hundreds of ship wrecks along the east coast. Who knows, Good Hunting.
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I also spend time on the outer Banks of N.C. If you are on Pea Island or any of the light house parks you can't take anything from these places at all. I almost went to jail over and Outer Banks King Snake that I caught on Pea Island some years ago. After some explaining by me the Officer decided to let me release the snake and be on my way. On this same trip on the way down I ran over and Inigo Snake on the road. Couldn't avoid him. He was huge.
Lampropeltis getula - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigo_Snake
Lampropeltis getula - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigo_Snake
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