A Piece On The Wetsand After Years

[Skull diver]

I recently had some doubts about the effectiveness of my sessions and made a radical change in instrumentation.

Although I had been adopting the Deus 2 on the bottom for a year continuously now, I first overdid it by dusting the immortal Excalibur and later dusting the Ctx3030...

Last week the numbers suddenly spiked and I reluctantly decided to sell the Deus 2.

As I write, the new owner of the remote is getting ready to go out for the first time to the beach with my former detector.

What happened this morning, however, marks a historic date for me.

I am a diver, I practice the shoreline very little, and in my area, given the minimal tidal variation, practically after the first autumn storms the equipment is all in the water...

Well, after years, I pulled up a ring in one of the worst spots where nothing but aluminum, iron and rarely any coins turn up.

I hate to repeat it, but the time saved by avoiding digging out any possible sign made all the difference.

Little does the bit of gold matter; getting to dig it up matters to me.

I have no words 🏴‍☠️

[Hardtimehermit]

Haha funny how things work, welcome back to the beach, perhaps the skulldiver has turned landlover 👍

[strick]

its nice having feet on firm ground...

strick 

[rvpopeye]

Sweet sand candy ! 👍

[Joe Beechnut OBN]

Nice gold! If digging it up is all that matters you should video your hunts. Being able to relive each second when that moment comes is worth more than the gold one digs. I've been doing it for sometime now, and really enjoy reliving the forgotten memories.

[Skull diver]

2 hours ago, Joe Beechnut OBN said:

Nice gold! If digging it up is all that matters you should video your hunts. Being able to relive each second when that moment comes is worth more than the gold one digs. I've been doing it for sometime now, and really enjoy reliving the forgotten memories.

I do it when I can Joe...But I'm afraid I have a curse with action cams.

Every time I take one with me on the mask, it drains the battery before the magic moment, or the focus fusses and it looks terrible... Or worse, nothing comes out and I capture a whole film of garbage.

Conversely, when I am without cameras, the craziest things happen and you would hardly believe it

[LawrencetheMDer]

I'm usually in the surf 80% of the time and most the rest in wet sand at low tide.  But this year has been different at least on the west coast of Florida - of 13 gold pieces (7 rings, 1 bracelet, 1 ear ring, 2 charms, 1 pendant and 1 lump of 18k gold; dental?) so far this year, only 2 rings in surf and 1 in wet sand and all the rest in dry sand.  Been cold and rainy and windy this year and few donors going into the water, except for Canadians.  Not surprised you caught gold in the dry sand.

Good snag.

Happy Hunting