Haven't posted much in the way of finds in a while so here goes for a relaxing trip where I found no hard gold but had some golden experiences.
Wife and I spent a week in Treasure Island Florida. Was a good get away from the daily grind. Wife found about 20 sharks teeth. I found a lot of pull tabs; more than half were of the old beaver tail style. I counted 198 tabs for the week. I wonder where all the old tabs are coming from? Are they really just there where they were dropped over the years or were they brought in with pumped in sand? Also had the normal bottle caps, foil and other junk. A few dollars in clad and the surprise finds were a 1918 Mercury dime and a Mississippi sales tax token. No good rings, but out of the junk rings there was one sterling toe ring. Saw manatees, and I never get tired of watching pelicans glide the lift off buildings and waves; what majestic birds.
One of the best treasures was meeting a family on the beach. A young gal with an entry level bounty hunter was detecting the wet sand. As I was getting near where she was digging with her hands for a target, I took the head phones off and asked if she had found something. Mom came over and said the young gal had been working hard to find targets but had not found any yet. I pulled some coins from the pouch and we started testing what she could find and not find over the wet sand. Dad came over too and we all talked about setting up the detector. Both mom and dad had read the manual and had good concepts of conductivity ranges and discrimination. Lots of falsing on the salt issues, but with a little discrimination and turning the sensitivity down a little from max, we found that she could find coins a couple inches deep. I had seen a couple of play areas up in the dry sand areas and suggested she try those. We talked about detectors that give a better chance in the wet sand if the interest in detecting continues. Mom was very interested in the sand scoop and where to get one. Next day, the little gal come running up as I'm going down the beach and says "see what I found!" she dug into her pocket and pulled out two pennies and a dime. How fantastic! Her excitement pretty much made the week for me.
After check out we had time to kill before our flight so we went to the Henry B. Plant museum / hotel in Tampa on the grounds of the University of Tampa. One of the treasures in that visit was while we were in the gardens. We saw a hawk pick up a pretty scrawny squirrel for lunch. Beautiful bird. Got some pictures and included one (posted here) with the hawk in the tree where it went to eat.
Cheers,
tvr
Wife and I spent a week in Treasure Island Florida. Was a good get away from the daily grind. Wife found about 20 sharks teeth. I found a lot of pull tabs; more than half were of the old beaver tail style. I counted 198 tabs for the week. I wonder where all the old tabs are coming from? Are they really just there where they were dropped over the years or were they brought in with pumped in sand? Also had the normal bottle caps, foil and other junk. A few dollars in clad and the surprise finds were a 1918 Mercury dime and a Mississippi sales tax token. No good rings, but out of the junk rings there was one sterling toe ring. Saw manatees, and I never get tired of watching pelicans glide the lift off buildings and waves; what majestic birds.
One of the best treasures was meeting a family on the beach. A young gal with an entry level bounty hunter was detecting the wet sand. As I was getting near where she was digging with her hands for a target, I took the head phones off and asked if she had found something. Mom came over and said the young gal had been working hard to find targets but had not found any yet. I pulled some coins from the pouch and we started testing what she could find and not find over the wet sand. Dad came over too and we all talked about setting up the detector. Both mom and dad had read the manual and had good concepts of conductivity ranges and discrimination. Lots of falsing on the salt issues, but with a little discrimination and turning the sensitivity down a little from max, we found that she could find coins a couple inches deep. I had seen a couple of play areas up in the dry sand areas and suggested she try those. We talked about detectors that give a better chance in the wet sand if the interest in detecting continues. Mom was very interested in the sand scoop and where to get one. Next day, the little gal come running up as I'm going down the beach and says "see what I found!" she dug into her pocket and pulled out two pennies and a dime. How fantastic! Her excitement pretty much made the week for me.
After check out we had time to kill before our flight so we went to the Henry B. Plant museum / hotel in Tampa on the grounds of the University of Tampa. One of the treasures in that visit was while we were in the gardens. We saw a hawk pick up a pretty scrawny squirrel for lunch. Beautiful bird. Got some pictures and included one (posted here) with the hawk in the tree where it went to eat.
Cheers,
tvr
