thank you to all..
Austin, do you know the San Antonio Area Metal Detector Club?
I thought it was not allowed to do to metal detecting on Padre Island...? but maybe this weekend I will go to Port Isabel, and hunt the beaches there.[/QUO
I do not know anybody in a MD club here, sorry. There is one in New Braunfels (I think) and there may be others. Yes, it is illegal to MD Padre, but north(of Malaquite) beach is legal. Port Aransas and south is legal too. On South Padre, north of Port Isabel there is about 30 or so miles of beaches. Get as close to the Mansfield Cut as you can, face north and look left. You will see elevated dunes inland. The largest is called Money Hill. We took spanish gold and silver coins from the beach to that hill in the 1958-1960 time period. There at the cut, they built a jetty that has covered the remains of a ship sunk in the 1554 time period. Now, as you stand at the cut, look across the water 1846 army camp buried in the sand. Illegal because it's on Padre, but before the national seashore was there, it was a favorite of hunters. I was a kid then and we found coins(and some jewelry) all over north and south Padre. We had a generic detector, and we just scratched the surface. I always tell the story of the bucket half full of coins that my older cousin told me to take to the truck. I was about 8-10 and it was heavy and the truck was a long way up the beach. I buried the bucket, marked the spot and we never found it again. On the beaches? Maybe you find stuff, back in the dunes, you can find things. Either way have fum and welcome...
