2 hour hunt on the Bay today.

[stevemc]

Baywalker (Jonnie) has been hunting a beach on the bay for a while, and it dint seem to have been hit hard. He posted a couple posts showing some of that. Jonnie and I hit it this afternoon for a couple hours. The beach was eroded, and it was rocky and shelly, with a filling of sticky mud. Mainly rocks and clams. But you couldnt swing once without getting 3 hits or nulls. We really had to decide which hits we wanted to dig up. Which ones sounded like something good. I brought my Excal, but had a 15" coil instead of the 8", I should have brought that, it was hard to pinpoint with so many targets getting in the way. Jonnie had an 8" coil and did a whole lot better than I did. A pinpointer would have helped a lot, since the mud made everything look the same, hard to find the target, even when it was out of the ground. Hard digging. We had to use a big knife and a trowel, hard on the knees too, kneeling on rocks. I took some pics on the beach but the camera was in macro , so they were blurry. Here's our take, no gold or silver. I did find some thin lead sheets, maybe lead sheathing for a boat. Jonnie's top, mine on bottom.

 

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[gold nuggets]

Hunting in trashy areas like that is tough going Steve.
Really makes you appreciate it when you find a spot
that is somewhat cleaner. Ya got some coinage though,
so the trip wasn't a total loss. Gold Nuggets

 

[stevemc]

Here is a pic of the stuff we were digging in, but as I said it was in macro, so its blurry, I forgot to take it back out, was taking close-ups the night before. This stuff was almost solid rocks and thick broken clams, and mud. Couldnt use a scoop, had to pick each rock out of the way.