I hadn’t hunted in about a month and surprisingly to me the last gold I found was on September 2nd last year. Recently, I had a bad cold, then I had some kind of strange allergic reaction that had me with migratory pain and swellings over different parts of my body for about 2 weeks. 
Very, very strange. I’ve also had to prepare a rental property that needed a lot of work for a few months. Finally, the stars aligned and I was able to get out for a hunt on Sunday and yesterday.
Sunday’s Hunt: I took out Noxy back to the beach that I found the crematory “tree-of-life” pendant and flung it way offshore near where I had found it. I was relieved to get that item back out there. I hunted for 4 hours, mainly wet sand and a small amount of water. I really thought that after digging all those sinkers that gold was going to make an appearance. It did not. The tungsten ring felt good but after seeing the tell-tale brush of the metal I knew it was junk. The garden hose pistol was a bucket lister, so I am glad I found that.
No matter on the gold, it was awesome to be able to get out there again after a month long absence.
MLK Day Hunt: I wasn’t sure if I would be able to get out 2 days in a row; I feel I am still not at 100%, and I wasn’t sure if the surf would hold up as predicted. Plus, I had some finishing touches at the rental that we were going to finally advertise. Morning came and I was able to get out for a 4.5 hour hunt with a borrowed Excal since Merlin is having headphone connection issues. The 1st ring was titanium and came about an hour into the hunt. At about 2 hours, I came to an offshore area that was very rocky – very unusual for South Beach.
I got the big sinker and I decided that I would carefully work this area. The SS ring came, then a big silver ring. Most of this was the hardest water digging I had ever done. The water in this 30’x120’ area was mostly waist to chest level, and I was climbing on my scoop trying to twist it and corkscrew it around to make it dig in to be able to retrieve targets. Often, I would change the angle of attack, but it was still difficult. I was getting a nice number of targets in an area that the hordes of other South Beach pirates hadn’t seemingly hit yet. Then I got a cr^ppy signal and the white 18K w/ the diamond showed up. 
The gold monkey was now off my back! I kept working and working the same area back and forth for over 2 hours. Then I got what though was a high tone signal and the yellow 14K “I Love Tom” inscribed on the inside showed up. I swept the detector around the hole and there was still another signal and a quarter popped up. (No wonder it wasn't a mid-tone). Another silver ring showed up along with a small chunky silver earring that I somehow lost. I would’ve worked this area another 2 hours but the tide was coming in and the swells and surf worsened, making it too difficult to continue.
Very, very strange. I’ve also had to prepare a rental property that needed a lot of work for a few months. Finally, the stars aligned and I was able to get out for a hunt on Sunday and yesterday. Sunday’s Hunt: I took out Noxy back to the beach that I found the crematory “tree-of-life” pendant and flung it way offshore near where I had found it. I was relieved to get that item back out there. I hunted for 4 hours, mainly wet sand and a small amount of water. I really thought that after digging all those sinkers that gold was going to make an appearance. It did not. The tungsten ring felt good but after seeing the tell-tale brush of the metal I knew it was junk. The garden hose pistol was a bucket lister, so I am glad I found that.
No matter on the gold, it was awesome to be able to get out there again after a month long absence.MLK Day Hunt: I wasn’t sure if I would be able to get out 2 days in a row; I feel I am still not at 100%, and I wasn’t sure if the surf would hold up as predicted. Plus, I had some finishing touches at the rental that we were going to finally advertise. Morning came and I was able to get out for a 4.5 hour hunt with a borrowed Excal since Merlin is having headphone connection issues. The 1st ring was titanium and came about an hour into the hunt. At about 2 hours, I came to an offshore area that was very rocky – very unusual for South Beach.
I got the big sinker and I decided that I would carefully work this area. The SS ring came, then a big silver ring. Most of this was the hardest water digging I had ever done. The water in this 30’x120’ area was mostly waist to chest level, and I was climbing on my scoop trying to twist it and corkscrew it around to make it dig in to be able to retrieve targets. Often, I would change the angle of attack, but it was still difficult. I was getting a nice number of targets in an area that the hordes of other South Beach pirates hadn’t seemingly hit yet. Then I got a cr^ppy signal and the white 18K w/ the diamond showed up. The gold monkey was now off my back! I kept working and working the same area back and forth for over 2 hours. Then I got what though was a high tone signal and the yellow 14K “I Love Tom” inscribed on the inside showed up. I swept the detector around the hole and there was still another signal and a quarter popped up. (No wonder it wasn't a mid-tone). Another silver ring showed up along with a small chunky silver earring that I somehow lost. I would’ve worked this area another 2 hours but the tide was coming in and the swells and surf worsened, making it too difficult to continue.Attachments
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