A Week At The Beach (lots Of Photos)

[F350Platinum]

Just got back from Myrtle Beach, stayed at a nice campground with about a mile of beach in front of it, with some hotels and condos along the rest.

Every day I was out there at about 7am, the first few days there was nobody but me detecting. Some days I went out in the afternoon as well for low tide. The Camping Gods were with us, it did not rain at all!

I was using my Deus 2 with the 13" mostly, I took a spin with the WS6 Master and my other D2 and the 9" coil with antenna, but found the 9" didn't really hit as deep as necessary for many of the finds. There is about a foot of new sand on this beach from 2 years ago, I knew that because it gets hit pretty hard that a lot of my finds would be deep.

My third target was a sight find, just before I swept over it and got a 94. 😎

A .925 engagement ring with 50 moissannites, and an aquamarine. First day, my wife was thrilled. 🥳 I say moissanite because the small chips test as real diamonds with my tester. 

Next big find was this nice Tungsten Meteorite ring, about 6" or more deep. It fit me.

I was hitting most of the coins at a foot or so, you can tell by how they look that they were there a long time.

A couple of days they ran a grooming machine over the beach, and one evening a couple detectorists showed up and grid searched the whole thing, one in the wet and one in the dry. 😵 Only saving grace was that they were both swinging their detectors 6" to a foot above the sand. 🤣

The next day I searched the golf cart parking lots instead to up my clad count 😎

I have RCDIGS mounts for all my stuff now, the V3 version for the WS6 Master, and the improved stainless bolts versions for my RCs. With my beach program, the mounts, and @steveg's excellent gear, it's turn on and go without a worry of losing anything. Thanks Ryan! 👍 I'm proud to say I helped a bit in the designs, and am grateful to both for letting me offer suggestions.

This beach is not the most productive place I've ever been to, the dry sand is not mineralized at all, but the wet and wash are often near the top on the mineralization bar. There is black sand that you can hear. This may be the reason I didn't get any gold even at low tide despite the D2 hitting coins at a foot or more. It's a pretty clean place, but there are pull tabs and bottle caps, I didn't dig any caps but I dug lots of pull tabs and foil. 

Here is the non-ring haul: 

108 coins, some dog tags, some earring bits and a pretty cool medallion: 

The center may be gold, and the back says "PW SUN '75", hand engraved.

My last hunt before I left gave me my "Thank you for looking" find, this tiny ring with 3 stones I dug in one of the exits.

It's not gold and probably cheap, but my wife took that too. 🤣

 

[ColonelDan]

Great trip report my friend....   Great looking ring.  I can see why the wife layed claim to that one!  😄

[palzynski]

Beautiful pics thx ...

[F350Platinum]

45 minutes ago, ColonelDan said:

Great trip report my friend....   Great looking ring.  I can see why the wife layed claim to that one!  😄

Thanks Colonel,

It wasn't as good as I would have liked (gold), but I only went out at low tide, never in the surf. It's a 5 foot tide so it goes out pretty far, not as bad as Savannah's 10 foot tide but you still get a lot of wet to cover, it's just so mineralized the gold doesn't poke through. No one I talked to said they ever found a gold ring there except in the dry. 🫤

Still love the place, it's just the beginning. 🙂

[CalReg]

Looks and sounds like a great trip...congrats!

[JCR]

Sounds like a fun vacation.

[Chase Goldman]

Those poor dogs, hope Jaws didn't get them.    Looks like you had a fun week!

[F350Platinum]

1 hour ago, Chase Goldman said:

Those poor dogs, hope Jaws didn't get them.    Looks like you had a fun week!

Hate it when people try to get a puppy into the surf, they are usually terrified. 😵

It was a blast, probably going back later this year. Thanks!

[F350Platinum]

4 hours ago, JCR said:

Sounds like a fun vacation.

Thanks JCR, 

It's nice to see some palm trees in April, we've been doing this for years. Now that I'm detecting it's even better. 🙂

[TampaBayBrad]

Looks like you did good for how deserted the beach looks. Maybe you're finding leftovers from last summer when it's crowded?

Off the subject a bit, but I'd like to see a pic of your RV/camper....