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Slow week this last, after missing about ten days and as many sessions due to the storm. As is often the case, again the first few hours after a not too pronounced but annoying energy revealed no particular changes on the bottom, perhaps for the worse to be honest. In any case, a short chapter of three days and two out of 3 productive sessions closes today. After an increase in finds, an average under 10g per week returns stable. Happy weekend to all of you

Made a 4th trip to the beach today, the tide was supposed to be the lowest for a while, and a pretty strong southwest wind. It was 63 when I got there, got cloudy and rained a little, but the sun came out and it went up to 77, so it was a perfect day. I spent most of my time in "the spot", the small area of this beach I've got so much from. Today I started with the 9" coil, and right away dug a Buffalo nickel. After about an hour of using the 9" which I had intended to go in the water with, I realized it was falsing way too much on iron, so I switched to the 11x13" coil and turned up Reactivity. The 9" is great in the water but not so much above the waterline. The 11x13 has unbelievable separation capability, and it did not disappoint. It found this Barber dime in this iron accretion: And this 1893 Barber quarter under this massive ball of iron rust. In both cases I heard the iron and the high tone as it should have been. Wow. I guess I have this detector dialed in! Here's the haul today: Barber quarter, dime, a bunch of small targets that were jewelry, 4 buffalo nickels, one V nickel and 4 wheats. I had to break the iron and mineral ball the dime was in to get it out, I did it very carefully but still have some crud on the front and can't see the date. If anyone knows how to remove the iron crud I would be happy. 🤔 After about 4 hours of searching this spot, I decided to walk the beach at the level of the ring I found which I'll show ya in a bit. I found some modern coins and a few bits of jewelry, but it was a long walk. When I was back near the truck I got my "thank you for coming" prize, just at the waterline: A nice silver ring. The trash was pretty heavy today: One huge antique sinker and bits of all kinds of metal. Got some modern coins: But the best thing all day came from the higher beach near the top of the sluice in the first photo, I got a 47 and dug this: A sadly broken but really old signet ring in 10k. It has to be somewhere around 100 years old. I was thrilled. Never got in the water, didn't need to!

Although I have serious doubts about where and when these finds appeared, this is an eloquent picture of the beginning of the games. For the first time this year, grams touch an old level that was distant in memory. The bottom is gradually yielding its graces even if in small doses. A much needed breath of fresh air. Happy weekend to all of you

After all your comments and advice, I decided to go back to "the spot" to see what else I could find, today as a water hunter. I brought my water ready D2, my tougher and heavier CooB scoop, and the Tube Tubb today. The water is not all that cold and it went up to almost 80. It wasn't 5 minutes before I found my first coin, and they just kept coming. Today I came home with 38 coins, one more than yesterday, and not one Zincoln. It was fairly evenly split between the old and the new. I finally came to the conclusion that the North wind took 50 to 100 years off this particular spot, and almost all of the finds were coming from about 15 feet past low tide, and 15 feet above it. It seems to me that if a beach gets heavily sanded out, whatever is in the water past the wave action and current gets sanded in. When I went out in the deeper water the targets were very faint or non existent. Got a couple of rings out there, one may be silver but the rest are pretty much junk. Here's the trash today, only a small handful. I dug a lot of copper screws today, a live blank .22 long, and a live .22 short. Dug next to no iron. Got a lot of clad but most of it has been there a long time, a nice tungsten ring, a broken one, and some small bling. 6 copper memorials, and 6 wheats. Here's the fun stuff, 2 old keys, another Barber Dime, 3 IHPs, 4 V nickels and 2 Buffalo nickels. On the right is a piece of typeset that says something about Chicago, a small broken buckle and I think 2 silver items, a ring and a small pendant. Both are brown, so I'll have to find a way to clean them without damage, I might just tumble them along with some of the coins to see what the dates are. One of the V nickels is a 1912. Here's the pendant, almost looks like gold under the brown but there are no hallmarks. I cannot find a similar one: Here is the reverse, it just says "OUT". I was trying to get out of there and go home, but I kept finding coins about every 5 feet. Another great day, and possibly my last beach hunt this year.

Got a strong feeling this morning that I should go to my local big beach. The festivals and big events are over for the year, and finally parking is free 🥳 I really didn't expect much, and for the first two hours that was the case. The tide was very low today, I think that's part of what made me go, the high beach was pretty barren of finds but I noticed the shoreline had quite a few cuts in it. The North wind has been pounding the shoreline for quite a while. Got there around 9AM, it was still 46 degrees but the water is still warm and the sun was up, so I never felt the cold. I searched this beach for 2 hours and got quite a few coins near the edge of the water. My count was 37 coins for the day. I ended up with a small amount of clad, a few old things, a silver earring, and a jeweled cross on a tiny chain. I found it on Amazon for $5.99 🤬 At first I thought it might be gold due to the low ID, but it's not. After 2 hours of finding pretty much the same old same old, I decided to hunt a stretch of beach I call "the spot", it is about 50 yards long. The tide by then was really low, lower than it has been in a while. It was then that I almost felt like I went back in time, I started finding coin after coin that was over 100 years old. 🤯 I couldn't leave that spot despite being tired, and I'm glad I didn't: I got 4 silver coins! 2 Barber Quarters, a Barber dime, and a Mercury dime. Under those are 4 "V" nickels, and a Buffalo nickel. Two Indian heads and 5 wheats. The most interesting thing that occurred today was finding the Merc, it was sitting on top of a huge piece of iron, yet the D2 sniffed it out. 😎 The iron chunk literally fills the frame. Trash was bits of everything, about 2 handfuls of lead, copper screws and bullet shells, and the usual junk.

Occasionally, there are days when a certain connection with the divine is felt more. Translated to our area, finding objects such as crucifixes, medals with holy icons, seems to be a double blessing. Not only did I have only three sessions this week between two storms, one past and another on the way, but only two productive days. The seabed is gradually changing for the better and the coming of winter will soon make a difference. I thank heaven for what I have been given. Have a great weekend everyone!

Educational week just passed. After a brief uptick in finds last week, I have concluded that the layer in the shallows is indeed still unpassable. Armed with good old Excalibur, this time I found myself in much deeper water and farther from shore. Forced to exercise exceptional caution with the surface compressor, I went where I usually use a scuba cylinder. Monday through Wednesday, three different spots and six pieces totaling about 15 grams. Once again blessed with a change of plan. Short break due to storm in progress, then starting again next Wednesday. Have a great weekend You all!

I finally dug something of value. Small gold wedding band. 2.66 grams of 14k. Rang up as 30/31 in the wet sand. You gotta dig the junk to get to the gold.

Amazed this week by the kind of events. Since last Monday, maybe I've been more productive on the wetsand than on the seabed, calculating effort and dedicated time. By the way, a heavy ear ring and a few coins opened the week and Tuesday an eyeballed wedding band and a thinner religious ring dug on the seabed declared the end of the short yellow stripe... Not too bad, considering 13,27 grams of 18K in total, slightly over the weekly minimum I keep in mind to run things in the right way. Have a great weekend You all!

I almost didn't go on this trip, a potential tropical storm was forecast, but the storm hit far south so it wasn't all that bad, got there safely, and the rain stayed south of us for the most part. It never got really windy, but because of the heavy surf and King Tide, the beach was pretty eroded and in some places very small. The tide only got to low in the afternoon, but it never got all that low and the surf was dangerous. I ended up going out twice later in the day as the beach was really packed by then. I got out early every day, went to different parts of the 11 mile strip, one thing I love about this place is that there are lots of free parking lots, and most of them have either bathrooms or portable facilities and shower stations so I can clean up my gear before going back. Best place to hunt I've ever been. Here's my worst trash day, just an example of what I threw out: The good finds almost always outnumbered the trash. I ended up with a fair amount of bits: Here's all the junk jewelry and odd stuff. The tiny chain is silver. Wish I could have found the rest of it. I dug 121 coins over the 5 days: Nothing spectacular but I'm always shocked at how many dimes I find, the Deus loves them, some were probably near or over a foot deep. I did get a nice silver ring but it was pretty mangled: https://alohajewelryco.com/collections/925-sterling-silver/products/copy-of-925-sterling-silver-6mm-hawaiian-plumeria-flower-scroll-stackable-ring-gold?variant=32542193680484 I straightened it out as best as I could. I did get gold but it was an obligation. I waved my detector over the sand in front of a sign, and got a really loud 96, generally the ID of a toy car, but I dug this small container that contained a ring. It was a nice 10k gold ring, pretty large. There was also a laminated tag with the name of a person, and two years on either side. The container appeared to have sand in it, but I realized immediately it was a funerary urn. 😬 I dug a much deeper hole, put everything back in the container, and re-buried it so that the Deus could not detect it at full power. Luckily no one saw me do it. It's not the strangest thing I've ever found, but certainly the most sad. 😥 Overall not a spectacular hunt but a good one.

That brings me to another question. If you take the natural response of a single frequency machine, would a gold machine like the Gold Racer be better in high aluminum trash areas for cherry picking out gold? I am sure general coin shooting would be trickier as you start to lose the gamut on the higher conductors. Here is the ID scale on the Makro Gold Racer @ 56khz. I have a stupid thought in my head that I maybe able to use that to cherry pick some parks here that are just blankets of aluminum. I have sniped out the easy copper and silver but the can slaw is brutal.

I recently had some doubts in using the main detector and was pondering the possibility of eliminating some by selling. In detail, I complained of some high ID response that I accidentally dug up in the absence of decent signals. The last victorious session, brought me a 6.49-gram 18K wedding ring and by sheer luck, with an amazing 80, I deigned to dig it out. So this morning I decided to go out with a dear old detector, one that doesn't mess around, and the numbers are shocking considering the spot, the devastated condition of the clay and rocks, and lousy visibility. After 4 1/2 hours on the bottom, thanks to the use of hooka compressor, I flushed out 4 pieces totaling 20 "dirty" grams. The numbers speak for themselves, and I am beginning to have clearer ideas.... I will add no more...

Amphibious week is the theme of this latest Friday update that I have been publishing for some time... With a really uncertain weather picture and some pretty impressive waves, I've been trying to take advantage of the first hints of erosion where I could dare.I'm starting to not remember where and under what conditions I've intercepted gold, but I'm keeping a particular focus on continually varying spots. I think I have given a massive cleanup in at least 4 places where in the past two months I seemed to be the only one still finding pieces. Finding a single ring in hundreds of square feet covered on the bottom I am beginning to perceive it as an event of luck rather than skill. So this is a new chapter of wetsand work and diving, alternating according to the will of the sea. Have a great weekend You all 🙏🏼

Transition week this last. A drastic drop in temperature first drove people away from the coast and soon after, announced some movement on the seabed. Still little field exposed in the water, but the first cuts appear on the berm. We will see in the coming days if the energy becomes more intense and efficient. Aside from the usual coins caught on the wetsand when the wave did not allow me to dive, two small pieces open the second week of September with a slight improvement over last week. In total, I'm about 16 grams behind schedule, but for now one can only watch for the first autumn storms and hope for an imminent opening. Have a great weekend You all!

3 in the same hole! Who knew treasure hunting could get so... intimate. Joke aside, I'm very happy with these results. Value-wise, just over $1000 AUD in scrap from maybe 4 hours of detecting. Day 1, I met my friend down at one of our good spots. Very cold. 13 degrees in the water at the moment (55F). Spent a few hours in pretty bad visibility water and I managed to score 1 gold 14ct ring as well as a few other odds. Day 2 (a couple days later though), just as cold, but we knew the tides and swell were going to be PERFECT. For comparison, it's never what I would call 'perfect'. It was flat, calm, no wind, no waves, nothing..for the first hour anyway. I haven't seen it so flat since last week, and before that, years. To line up the tides, visibility and weather is very hard at this spot. We ended up getting in the water before daybreak and I was equip with my Blu3 Nomad and only the light from my Manticore. It's the first time I've used it at this spot as the waves are always too big. I ventured out a bit deeper and didn't find a lot, so came back to the shallower end, about 2 meters deep where most people swim. Boom, started getting coins and bangles and other bits and pieces. One thing I noticed when using such a thick dive hood with the nomad is that it's very hard to hear targets even with the "sound boost" feature, so I found myself mostly looking at the screen and kind of switching between the Nomad and my snorkel. After about 20 minutes, got a nice signal and found a cool ring. I can't remember which one came first but I got 3 rings and a coin! 2 were gold and 1 was a cool little silver snake. I cleared that patch and went over to another rocky section and scored another nice 18ct ring as well as more coins. Great fun! One might ask, "aren't you afraid of sharks???". I'd reply, "Nah, never seen any, it'll be fine". Imagine my surprise when friend messaged me the following day with a video of a shark he spotted around the corner, LOL. Not sure what type it is, but he said it looked harmless. Have tons of videos to edit for Youtube but not enough time unfortunately. I'll get around to it eventually.

Well I didn't do as well as some other person that posted today 😅 but it was another fine day at the beach, I brought the D2 with the 13" for the dry, and hunted until the tide got low. I really didn't expect much, but last week I saw a lot of people come out on Monday, so I thought I'd find something anyway. Did pretty good in the dry, and the last two hours were spent in the water using my second D2 with the 9". I don't have any pics from that because I have to leave a lot of stuff behind in the truck, I can only bring my valet key. In 7 hours out there I managed to get 42 coins, unfortunately nothing older than 1965. This is pretty average for me there. I got two hot wheels (thank God 😏), a little silver key pendant, and the misshapen band in the center is some kind of bracelet or earring dripping with CZ's. The small ring is silver plated and has a couple of stones. I guess someone intended to make earrings out of the shells, they are attached by two stainless keyrings. Oops. My favorite find of the day wasn't stellar, but it is gold plated: A nice ring with CZs that my wife snagged for herself. I found a huge knife in the water along with a few coins but it's been hit a lot lately, probably because I've been posting some pretty good stuff out of there. 🤔 Next week a week long hunt back in the Outer Banks! 😎

This week, unlike last week, it was not the swell that kept me out of the game, but other breakdowns at the surface compressor. Although I adopted scuba tanks from the top, I did not have enough bottom time to produce better. As soon as the compressor problem was fixed, Thursday morning a little more than a gram 18 K earring revived the situation. Yesterday morning through my own fault, I missed a session thanks to the devastating dinner the night before.... To conclude this morning I conducted a blind session with zero visibility and brought home a Casio watch still alive. Really hard to say the feeling after 9 grams less than the week's minimum 😑 Have a great weekend You all.

The week just past, remains more a symbol to pay attention to, than anything memorable in terms of finds. A few coins, found at times when having to stay away from the water and walking along the shoreline, some appearance of a new stretch where to take action soon, but other than that, just great risk and quite a bit of road traveled without fruit. Last Monday, as always at dawn, I enter the water at one of the spots I have been alternating for months. Although the forecast was not so clear, within a quarter of an hour the waves became heavy, then high, then threatening. I get out with difficulty and before I do any damage to my equipment, I abandon the spot and return home. Once again, the surface compressor must have "ingested" water and although this is a brand new engine, problems with the volume delivered begin. Tuesday morning, same spot on the shoreline, but a worrisome new layer declares the games closed. I'll save you the trouble of reading further and end with Saturday morning, then yesterday, with the last area I imagined productive, which exposed some lead, a fake gold earring and little aluminum. No miracles, no conditions...The sea won this time. Good Sunday to all of you.

Went up to the beach yesterday to get a trial run of my Tube Tubb rig in, another early start and a long hunt. I had been to the small beach and saw there were no jellyfish, so I figured there wouldn't be any further up the river. Well I was wrong, the water was loaded with them. 😬 Luckily I brought some long quick dry pants and had no problem. Got a nice 93 and thought to myself "well, another quarter, that's cool!" Along with some clad I ended up with this blackened heavy ring: It's around a Size 4, weighs over 6 grams. It cleaned up nicely, another one for my wife. I'll probably take it to a local jeweler for authentication and further cleaning, Chanel rings usually have specific hallmarks but this one only has "925" and some other obliterated mark, it also appears to have been resized. I'm calling it as fake but 6.2 grams of silver for a ring that small is pretty good. The stones appear to be real but low grade diamonds, they are so small they're hard to test. Here's the trash for the day, didn't dig any in the water but sure did on the beach. I wish I had some tiny toy cinder blocks for the truck, the tires were all gone. 🤣 Ended up with 31 more coins, a few older memorials, but the spot where I've been hitting old stuff is pretty cleaned out now. Got another Lord's Prayer coin in the water. I was in the water for about 3 hours and spent the rest on the beach, locals told me not many people had been there as school is back almost everywhere. There was another guy water hunting, he did the other beach but said he got nothing but coins and had to go way out to get them. He's a nice guy and didn't come over to where I was.

This week, I really have a hard time explaining what happened and I find there is a strange, inconceivable balance in things. Monday morning, in the total absence of any idea or area where there was less sand than around, I return to a spot where although there are obvious rocky spots within sight, no one has dared to approach the flap beyond the shoreline buoys for years. I end up above on an expanse of massive boulders that were probably uncovered long before judging by the seaweed contamination. I stay with the M8 at really minimal sensitivity and almost by accident, dig out three signals not far apart, maybe 10 meters...An hour and I get home because of people swimming around the surface compressor...Damn! Tuesday at dawn I return of course to the exact same place, where by necessity I took reference with compass and signal on the ground not to waste time to intercept the precise area. Nothing, not a single signal left. I was aware that after one such day, 10 more totally different ones follow...Indeed.... On Wednesday I change area and in utter disappointment the surface compressor stops working and I run out of air in the first few meters from shore as I prepare to move away into deeper water. I return to shore to do a brief check and without wasting too much time, I use my snorkel to continue and angrily hold on to the first few meters below the shoreline. I eventually manage to find in the middle of nowhere a decent signal under a 70. It was a small 925 silver engagement ring, very much like a wedding band and for that, really a mockery and no picture of it. I go home with a smile because at any rate, in just one hour Monday, I doubled and exceeded the minimum target this week only to have to engage in deep maintenance... Have a great weekend to all of you

Actually not much to report for this week, if anything the M9 had a fairly quick break even with three rings under its belt. Two of the three, were recovered last week and thus not new, but the third turned up Tuesday morning after sunrise buried well over 10 inches...No wonder, considering the 7.77 grams of 14K. Bad surprise was the acid test, where just the heaviest one turned out to be 9K complete with a 585 mark typed inside. A real scam into which the owner also fell, because inside it bore the bride's name and thus a fake wedding band or at least passed off as 14K but with much less real value. (This ring appears next to the M9 logo). About the M9, there is little to be done, once in the dive, exceeding 20 points of sensitivity with beach LC, is out of question.With the M8, one can dare a few more points and given the non-appearance of broken bracelets or necklaces, I will return to use it soon. Definitely the M9 is more akin to rings, but not to links in bracelets and necklaces. Have a great weekend to all of you!

Got out to my big beach today, long hunt. The only other detectorist I saw today was in the water. He checked in with me later kinda disappointed, but he did get one ring. 👍 Nice guy. Got out there early, beautiful morning, weather was great and Debby had just trashed the place. The flood line was higher than I've ever seen it, but it was high tide when I got there so the lower cut wasn't visible. Hung out there 7 hours, talked to people, and just bashed around on the higher beach until the tide got low, then hunted the waters edge. I did pretty good, only got 40 coins today instead of the 60 last week, no silver, but some of my other finds were pretty impressive. The large aluminum token has a gear shape stamped in it, and says "50" on the top and "FIFTY" on the bottom. No clue what it might be for. Got the usual toys and bling, including a pretty nice plated ring. Glad I'm still on my Hot Wheels streak. 🙄 Trash was pretty heavy, lots of lead and some hot rocks that hit in the 80s on the D2. My favorite find of the day was this working, stainless Michael Kors watch for my wife, they sold for around $250. I'd say it paid for my gas and parking 😎

Well, this time last monday, with still low visibility I've been lucky enough to intercept a cleaner water spot where in the really shallows some clay and rocks were keeping two ear rings at a good distance one from the other.B Both 18k marked but the bigger in white gold. Tuesday, in the hope to find more and not keeping memory of the brutal almost 4 hours to bring home 2 dirty grams the day before...I've been back there to find a doubtful round charm with a missing image in the middle..I can clearly see a strong glue dot and in spite of an immaculate appearance and 18K-ish colour, it will be tested to call it a win... So 1.99 grams pending... Wednesday far from that area but another time in a too small clay patch, something similar to a miracle happened... A tiny open hoop yellow 18K ear ring right above a thin broken bracelet...So the ear ring signal made possible to see it in the same water moved hole...I tell You, I realised just leaving the area overtired in my ears due to crap of any sort and when back in my car, that all of them were 18K. Thursday and last session of the week cause of usual late arriving of swells after last hurricane near You upthere, I ended up in another beach where still today and maybe December there is and will be too much sand after last winter miracle of rocks in sight...Three hours and a tiny 18K white band to leave happily the spot to dawn warriors swimmers....If I just could had a grenade sometimes...But that's another story 🏴‍☠️ All of this with my self repaired and again trusted M9...But today I'm back to my first Mlove8... On Monday the battle restarts 🤞 Have a great week end You all and stay safe!

Last Monday I tried to go to my local big beach, found after 4 days of feeling miserable that I probably had a bad bout of AFib, I had invited Chase down but had to leave early. Not much that day. 😵 Today I felt much better and hit the road at 6am to get there by 7. Today may well be the last hot day for quite a while, but it was 74 this morning, so I figured I could make a day of it. It was cloudy and kind of foggy when I got there, I was hoping for low tide but got a bonus - an exceptionally low tide and completely flat river. 🥳 The only thing I regret was that I was not prepared to go in the water, but the jellyfish are active. I was the only beach hunter today, and made the most of it, covering a couple miles of beach, from the waterline to the sidewalks. I did run into a water hunter later who told me he wasn't having much success with jewelry, but he got a couple dollars worth of coins. This beach has 4 spots, one in front of a motel, one in front of restaurants and condos, one really big one further down, and one about a mile down the road. By about 11 am the sun was coming out, but I still felt good enough to keep going. The tide had gone really low, exposing areas I could generally only cover in the water. I ended up at the last beach before the tide came in, same story. It turned out to be a pretty good day, here's the trash: Not much really, most were sight picks. I even got a 1965 quarter which was my first coin find. Always have a laugh over that. I dug 60 coins today, including a lot of nickels. A few of them were really deep, and I found one spot that they just kept coming out of. My favorite find today among the nickels was a 1947 Roosevelt dime, I have found a couple of Mercs in this spot recently as well. A lot of old pier was exposed there. Last the other stuff: Some plastic toys, a couple of toy cars, a really old key in the same spot as the Roosevelt dime, a cheap ring and a couple of pendants, one with Turquoise and the other my wife's first initial. I definitely made up for last Monday, and as usual this beach had a surprise in store for me 🙂

Unlike usual, this time the weekly wrap up starts last Saturday and ends today.... With a seabed still stressed from the last swell, less-than-stellar visibility, and tons of new sand to make August exactly as usual, I pulled up a solitaire that I initially mistook for steel and discovered to be 18-karat white gold. I spent only a few seconds retrieving it and putting it away, only to proceed to the exit and leave bored after three hours. 2.20 grams, which I happily chose, being a perfect size for my woman. This ends today, with a very similar session and just 1.99 grams in two earrings.... Typical of this summer period, it alternates between absolute zero and little, unlike late spring where on the contrary, empty days alternated with balanced grams. End of story for this week... Tired as usual ... but fighting as well... Have a great w.e. You all!