6 Days At The Beach, Lots Of Photos

[F350Platinum]

Just got back from a week at Emerald Isle, it was really hot and humid but I managed to get out twice almost every day. I've done much better with the amount of coins and other stuff I've dug there, but not as good as this time with rings.

I went out early and again in the early evening most days, it's my wife's annual "birthday week", so I hoped I'd find her something nice. I cover about a mile or two of beach, both the dry and the wet, and one day I attempted a water hunt at low tide in these troughs that appear, they're about 3-4 feet deep and have a current.

There were signals but everything turned out to be sinkers that I gave to the fishermen. 

My first find was a pretty big one, a Diamond stud earring that pegged my diamond tester: 

It looks to be about 3/4 carat but because the setting is 925 it might be a Moissanite. I'll probably take it to the jeweler for appraisal.

Overall I've found way more here, here's a few pics from last year: 

Got my wife a nice pair of silver earrings. 

This year, well, meh. 

Not as many coins and only one Matchbox car 😏 I wonder if things have changed a bit. 🤔 The campground is way more expensive for sure.

One day I decided to go to another beach entirely, and did rather well.

Here's the jewelry haul, 3 of the rings came from that beach, one a foot deep, and the big bling nameplate was 2' down:

The nameplate is kinda bendy so it might be silver backed, it's really heavy but I'll have to test it. It cost me $4 an hour to go to that beach, but the return was worth it: 

First is a silver Pandora ring. 

Second is a wave ring, also 925.

This one is a cheap ring but it has a nice stone and appears to be rhodium plated, but it has no hallmarks. My wife was pleased that the two silver rings out of 3 fit her, the third is too small.

The only other ring barely worth mentioning was this one, it has what might be an opal but it's only silver plated, again no hallmarks. 

This place is so expensive now and hard to get my monster toy hauler into, so we probably won't go back there. At least I got her two nice finds and a possible diamond for her future use.

[JCR]

A good time had by all.

[rvpopeye]

 

Rip canals ?😳

Probably less finds cuz people had to pawn their jewels to pay for the site  ?

Parking lots might well be the true pirates of the beaches these days....    

You did pretty well though.👍 Maybe the beach knew it was your last visit and gave up a "thanks for coming on down for wifey's birthday" haul ? 🤔 

 

 

 

[F350Platinum]

9 minutes ago, rvpopeye said:

Probably less finds cuz people had to pawn their jewels to pay for the site  ?

Parking lots might well be the true pirates of the beaches these days....    

You did pretty well though.👍 Maybe the beach knew it was your last visit and gave up a "thanks for coming on down for wifey's birthday" haul ? 🤔 

There weren't many other detectorists there, I could see the inexperience in them, but you can still nail fresh drops with your coil 6" above the sand 🤪

I saw one guy walking up and down the beach holding a Bounty Hunter straight out in front of him 🤯, and helped a woman with an Ace 400 do a lil better. No one reported anything great. 

7 rings in 6 days is pretty darn good, I'll take it. 🙂 Just wish there was some gold mixed in. It's always a pleasure to get deep coins even if they are crap, heck I was digging pull tabs at a foot. If there was any gold I should have found it.

I did get a working iPhone, but the woman that left it came running out and claimed it before I left. I told her she would have got it back either way 🤷‍♂️

Also got this cool toy horse for the dashboard of my wife's new Bronco Sport. 😄

 

[TampaBayBrad]

Nice variety, second beach looks like it could be a lot of fun with the rings if you could hunt it a few trips. Two of my parking lots are up to $4 an hour, but they don't start charging until 8 a.m. so I get to hunt from 5 a.m. to 8 for free. Who says nothing's free these days? 😄

[F350Platinum]

1 hour ago, TampaBayBrad said:

Nice variety, second beach looks like it could be a lot of fun with the rings if you could hunt it a few trips. Two of my parking lots are up to $4 an hour, but they don't start charging until 8 a.m. so I get to hunt from 5 a.m. to 8 for free. Who says nothing's free these days? 😄

That's how it is at that beach too. 👍 I'm just glad I got anything good, no hotels there, just big rental houses. The public section gave me the most finds.

[Skull diver]

52 minutes ago, F350Platinum said:

That's how it is at that beach too. 👍 I'm just glad I got anything good, no hotels there, just big rental houses. The public section gave me the most finds.

I think the greatest treasure is the moments experienced out there.

Sometimes I lose the wonder of my surroundings at the bottom of the sea no matter how focused I am on unearthing gold, but then I think back to the quiet of some less crowded days with the sunrise as a backdrop and understand that I can never stop.

[DWerk]

Even if I find nothing I have always found something by being out and searching...

[okara gold]

Plenty of varied targets to keep the thrill going. Maybe gold on the next hunt when you least expect it. I've been in some of those troughs with the current moving so fast you can hardly set your scoop down accurately. Looks like a fun hunt overall!