After spending the better part of 3 hours on this "beach" and finding little of anything to post about, Dwayne gets a target that reads "ring or bottle cap". Right at the water line we retrieve the target from about 6 inches down and sure enough it's a ring!! Things are finally looking up..............wait a minute............it looks like a junker. Sure enough, it's either a copper or brass base but it looks like it may have been there for quite a while. The entire band is made up of a circle of X's a O's with some real tiny stones between them. Bottom line is it's JUNK ! We never found a wheat penny (I got a memorial) or anything else that looked like it may have come from a long popular deserted beach.....no car keys, no old bottles, and the mangroves were grown up so that you couldn't get a coil on the ground and they were full of tidal trash, lots of garbage every where.
We spent a good 4 hours on this one small beach area and I was in the water for an hour of that and we didn't find anything that said that we were in the absolute right area. I guess it's possible to think that it had been hunted before but even the water that I hunted was void of any targets. I got maybe 3 hits in the water and that's where you usually find targets a plenty. Any how, it was fun, glad y'all could come along, and we will have to keep researching the area to make sure we were in the correct place before we write this one off.
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Dead Horseshoe crab and Cow-nosed Ray. Looks like the fiddler crabs have had a feast!
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When you are water hunting in the ocean with headphones on you always have your eyes open for surprises. This Catfish swam right by me. He was probably kind of cold as he wasn't too concerned or in a hurry.
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This is a female Fiddler crab that came up in one of my scoops. She was probably just as surprised as I was!
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Here is the one promising thing that might conclude that this area was once used years ago. I'm not so sure as there should have been many more targets than we got.
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Different view from around the corner as we were just scouting around a little bit.
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Brown Pelican cruising around as we were headed back in.
We spent a good 4 hours on this one small beach area and I was in the water for an hour of that and we didn't find anything that said that we were in the absolute right area. I guess it's possible to think that it had been hunted before but even the water that I hunted was void of any targets. I got maybe 3 hits in the water and that's where you usually find targets a plenty. Any how, it was fun, glad y'all could come along, and we will have to keep researching the area to make sure we were in the correct place before we write this one off.
[attachment 185061 carcasses.jpg]
Dead Horseshoe crab and Cow-nosed Ray. Looks like the fiddler crabs have had a feast!
[attachment 185062 Catfish.jpg]
When you are water hunting in the ocean with headphones on you always have your eyes open for surprises. This Catfish swam right by me. He was probably kind of cold as he wasn't too concerned or in a hurry.
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This is a female Fiddler crab that came up in one of my scoops. She was probably just as surprised as I was!
[attachment 185064 junkring..jpg]
Here is the one promising thing that might conclude that this area was once used years ago. I'm not so sure as there should have been many more targets than we got.
[attachment 185065 roundthebend.jpg]
Different view from around the corner as we were just scouting around a little bit.
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Brown Pelican cruising around as we were headed back in.