Well I Guess I Spoke Too Soon About The Season Being Almost "Over"...

[Mike (Virginia Beach)]

Karl and I hit the low tide again this morning, for about 5 hours. No other hunters. Not many targets. Then we find the coin honey hole from hell...digging more coins than we knew what to do with. And within the coins, some other goodies...rings and things. It was some tiring work, but worth it.

I ended up with 19 quarters, 22 dimes, 9 nickels, 40 pennies, 3 silver rings, 2 14K gold bands, 1 18K white ladies ring with a single 1/4 carat high quality diamond in it (tested) and a 22" 10K yellow ladies "rope" type chain with crucifix, and a few trinkets. I was in shock, really. Until that other chain yesterday, I've been in a bit of a gold slump for several hunts. Just goes to show you, you just never know. And cuts are your friend!

Anyway, the wife is wearing the new chain...gave back the one from yesterday because it's a little heavier and more manly than the one I found today...she's keeping that. The rest will go to the next years Midwest Refineries run and the plan then is that the check from next summer will be paying for our Fall/Winter cruise to someplace not here.

OK, so here's my nut. I used electrolysis to get the 3 silver rings clean.

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[Parkit]

YeeHah! Impressive! Looks like Valhalla after my disappointing weekend. WTG!

 

[cwilk]

That amount of Jewelry would satisfy me for a month or two. Great day! How long were you in the water?

Chris

It still amazes me how all that stuff finds its way to one hole like that.

 

[Bobbie]

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[Stacey in West Palm Beach]

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[Mike (Virginia Beach)]

Chris, I never actually got wet. Well, my feet. And a little crotch-splash a few times. But I do FAR better in the wet sand at the water's edge at low tide than I do when I go in the water. The surf here is usually pretty relentless and it's been very rough and windy the last couple of days so hunting in the water would be very difficult. And the way the lay of the beach is here, the pitch of the wet sand, the way the surf shakes out the targets, etc. there are many coin and jewelry targets buried in the hard-packed wet sand. The trick is to wait for the beach erosion and when you see a CUT, work the area from the cut wall to the wet sand. When you find the "hot zone" where all the targets are, work the hell out of that until there aren't any more targets. That's pretty much the only way I hunt and I do it almost exclusively at the night/wee hour low tides. It's gotten me a lot of nice stuff over the years. Of course at other beaches, that may well not apply.

Our total hunt time was between 5 and 6 hours. Normally I do 4 hours, 2 hours on either side of low tide. But there were so many targets we didn't want to quit until we got them all.

 

[Mike (Virginia Beach)]

I think it was hiding right where we found it. This weekends big positive high tides and raging wind just uncovered it. Kind of like that spot we hit with Tony and Dalton, where it looked like the surface of the moon in front of the Boardwalk Hotel that night for all the holes we dug. The stuff moves around down there all the time. This summer it has moved a lot less and stayed hidden a lot more.

Hopefully you will come again next summer when the targets are popping like mad, the way they USUALLY are at that time of the summer.

 

[Stacey in West Palm Beach]

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[adam in cal]

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[JOE in MD]

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[Bottomfeeder]

Awesome Mike, as usual!! Nice pics

 

[PaPa-Joe-Fla.]

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[tab-nabit]

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[captRobert]

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[JW]

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[JT in Virginia]

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[gobble-gobble]

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[adam in cal]

Its a MR. T starter kit ..........

 

[Mike (Virginia Beach)]

LOL!

 

[Gulf Hunter]

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