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California High surf. gold/diamonds

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PrunedaleByrd

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Winter is coming! First decent storm in a while hit our coast whipping up waves in the 20’ range. The local beaches eroded just enough to tease out some targets again. Hard hunting, but persistence payed off for a few diggers. My night was mediocre so far, 26 coins in several hours of hunting, 10pm, feeling petered-out and ready to snag a burger on the way home. One more trashy signal on the nox, a broken up 4-6 “okay, a piece of can-slaw for the road” nope! A panty-dropper of a gold necklace. 6.1 grams of 14K gold with 1carat total weight in loupe-clean diamonds. Had a beer on the beach and called it a night. ‘Til the next storm. :beers:
 

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Very STELLAR find ! Diamonds , though small , look good quality. Wish we had 20 footers down here.
 
Thanx for bringing us along Aaron. There was NOT a lot of targets, despite the media hoopla about that wave-event. The high tides just weren't right for md'ing erosion purposes. So you definitely earned that puppy. Congrats.
 
:dingding: NICE!!! That one would definitely fit around my neck. :yes:
 
Great find! Going back to work full time after the lockdown has really eaten into my MD'ing time...need to get out there after the next storm!
 
aj0421 said:
Very nice find! The joy of the low equinox VDIs, you never know what you might dig up!
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I'm looking forward to bench-testing air-testing Aaron's necklace. To see if my Explorer II (my go-to-beach-machine) is capable of getting the chain. He's using the Nox, and I'll be curious whether that presents a difficult signal for the Explorer.

GroundSweeper said:
Nice one! :thumbsup: Congrats on the gold and ice! Did you bring the beer along in your pack or ?
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Being as how his prior career was as a jeweler, you can bet he was proud of this puppy :)
 
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