Well after a comedy of errors yesterday morning and after squeezing in work stuff managed to get to a local beach for low tide - just at the low tide time (normally try and go a few hours earlier).
This beach is massive by our standards, a good few KM long and no noticeable cuts etc, just tons and tons of sand!
Arriving at the beach, the forecast was wrong, it was a "north wind" and actually fairly rough, hate that - it's like being in a washing machine trying to find Small targets, dropping through the scoop on a murky bottom! Seeing the waves was not overly excited about my prospects for the day. On top of the fact the beach has been well and truly hammered by multiple detectorists!
So, anyway, if you can picture this.....
Popped on the wetsuit, it's a camo one (used for spear fishing), gloves, boots and now start walking toward the water with the green ATX and the green "camo wetsuit". About half way down I get stopped by a girl and her friend, saying they want a photo of us together as I look like a "ninja" - anyway photos done and head toward the water.....
Just walk to a totally random spot, down from where the "ninja" photos had been taken! (Lucky the hood is on, so no one will know me!!!!)
Enter the water, knee deep, turn on the ATX and place it in the water, also regretting that at the same time, knowing I will need to clean the cams of sand!
Mask is full of sand, so bend down to wash it out....damn those Ninja photos, should not have dropped the mask!
Anyway mask is now sorted, pick up the ATX and suddenly, without taking a step, hear a HIGH LOW
Assuming it is a bottle top or just the machine falsing, used the scoop anyway just to be sure.....
You guessed it.....gold ring..... 1940s?
Quite decent 9ct but a large old Mens ring!
Having had my amazing luck for today, promptly turned arounds, knees wet, and went home!
This beach is massive by our standards, a good few KM long and no noticeable cuts etc, just tons and tons of sand!
Arriving at the beach, the forecast was wrong, it was a "north wind" and actually fairly rough, hate that - it's like being in a washing machine trying to find Small targets, dropping through the scoop on a murky bottom! Seeing the waves was not overly excited about my prospects for the day. On top of the fact the beach has been well and truly hammered by multiple detectorists!
So, anyway, if you can picture this.....
Popped on the wetsuit, it's a camo one (used for spear fishing), gloves, boots and now start walking toward the water with the green ATX and the green "camo wetsuit". About half way down I get stopped by a girl and her friend, saying they want a photo of us together as I look like a "ninja" - anyway photos done and head toward the water.....
Just walk to a totally random spot, down from where the "ninja" photos had been taken! (Lucky the hood is on, so no one will know me!!!!)
Enter the water, knee deep, turn on the ATX and place it in the water, also regretting that at the same time, knowing I will need to clean the cams of sand!
Mask is full of sand, so bend down to wash it out....damn those Ninja photos, should not have dropped the mask!
Anyway mask is now sorted, pick up the ATX and suddenly, without taking a step, hear a HIGH LOW
Assuming it is a bottle top or just the machine falsing, used the scoop anyway just to be sure.....
You guessed it.....gold ring..... 1940s?
Quite decent 9ct but a large old Mens ring!
Having had my amazing luck for today, promptly turned arounds, knees wet, and went home!