OBX Bling

[tvr]

Spent 4 days at the Outer Banks. Beautiful water, mostly great weather. Very soft sand. Was not finding anything good in the water so hunted mostly dry sand. The sand had some heavy black sand streaking. Got a big piece of junk bling as well as some change and fishing weights.

 

[Jim Robertson]

Spent 4 days at the Outer Banks. Beautiful water, mostly great weather. Very soft sand. Was not finding anything good in the water so hunted mostly dry sand. The sand had some heavy black sand streaking. Got a big piece of junk bling as well as some change and fishing weights. View attachment 6053

That is a very hard place to hunt. At least where the ocean brakes. You sink knee deep in the sand. I hunted it for about 15 years. HH

 

[tvr]

That is a very hard place to hunt. At least where the ocean brakes. You sink knee deep in the sand. I hunted it for about 15 years. HH

The waves were spaced at almost 8 second intervals. That long interval helped in the water. I was out just past the hard break but only digging bottle caps and pieces of iron in the water; so moved to the sand. Wife and I get to OBX about once a year. It's been a couple of years since I got gold on those beaches. This trip the sand was even softer than most visits and while there were a lot of black sand areas, they were not as bad as other visits. There is so much new building along the OBX coast; big expensive places, that it is loosing some of it's charm; at least for me. Since they banned driving on the beach in the areas where one can metal detect, the camp fires and party spill areas seem to have just about disappeared. I don't miss the melted can bits, but the fishing weight / change / potential jewelry spills from people being rambunctious around their trucks on the beach is missed.

 

[jim tn]

Nice recovery, tvr. Adds a little extra to a already fun and relaxing trip. HH jim tn