AlwaysBusyJ
Jr. Member
- Feb 9, 2013
- 94
- 44
- Detector(s) used
- Teknetics Delta 4000
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
So took my first trip detecting on the beach this morning. I did a little research before I left and found some areas I thought might be good to check out, I had decided to go to Ocean Shores on the Washington coast. I did what I always do before starting off and any adventure... I checked weather.com to make sure there were no surprises headed my way, and to my delight it was supposed to be almost 60 and mostly sunny on the beach! Great day to go detecting right?? Me and the wife get all the gear in the trunk, I order an extra large coffee and two hours later we arrived at our destination: Damon Point Park. At first I was surprised by how many people were already there. I mean I checked out the area on satellite map and there didn't look to be anything special there at all so I didn't know what all the fuss was about. I arm myself with the detector, my wife readies her camera, and we take off down the beach following a stream of people. We arrived just before low tide so there was plenty of exposed beach to search. Being new I wasn't really sure how my detector would handle on the wet sand, so I started off on the dry stuff and slowly worked my way down to the water. For the most part my machine seemed to do fairly well even right up to the water, but I was getting a few more false alarms and the water was really really cold, so I moved up out of the water a little ways.
After walking for what seemed liked hours, we noticed a group of people near the vegetation line standing around and pointing at something. We found out why so many people came to this park, it's home to Snowy Owls!
Trying to get a good picture of the owls kept my wife busy for hours while I was combing the beach. I was getting hit after hit but I must have accidentally pressed the "only search for rusty junk" button on my detector because that's all I was finding! Oh well, I was still happy to be finding anything at all, and the majority of the time I dug I actually came up with something rather than striking out completely, so I was happy digging my little holes. It took me a little while to figure out the answer to everything isn't always dig deeper, sometimes you just gotten widen the hole.
After coming up with mostly rusty nails, one nickel, and a slightly sore back I decided to turn in, by this point we had wandered all the way to the end of the park. And now that we were two and a half miles from the car, we found out the weather man had made a mistake. He didn't mean to say 60 degrees, partly cloudy, with a 10% chance of rain... what he must have meant was extremely windy, bitter cold, and 100% chance of getting soaked. Because we got completely drenched three separate times before we managed to get back. Boy was my back sore and I was so thankful my detector only weighed two pounds, couldn't imagine lugging anything heavier than that around! Before we headed back home we decided to check down by Quinault casino since I had remembered seeing a beach access right next to the resort. I figured people winning money at the casino, getting drunk, stumbling around the beach were sure to lose things. As it turns out they lost plenty of things, gum wrappers, bottle caps, tin foil, and just about everything you can thing of besides anything I would actually want to keep! Well, that was it for me, the day was getting late and I was hungry. So we packed up and headed home. On the way back to the highway we passed a few deer, so we had to stop and take a few pictures. They were pretty big, and not shy at all!
In the end I came home pretty much empty handed, but I managed to clear some pretty nasty rusted stuff that looked like it was designed to shred beach goers feet, so at least I did some good. Plus I got to see some pretty neat wildlife and I got plenty more exercise than I planned on getting this weekend, so all in all it was a good trip. I doubt I'll make it back to the beach any time soon but I learned a couple things so hopefully the next time I go I'll do a little better. And here's most of what I dug up:
Mostly scrap, but this thing did look interesting, had a few numbers i could make out, but I'm guessing it just an old part off a boat or something.
And then there was this, at first I thought it was fishing gear or something, but it looked a little too delicate
And... my very first bottle cap! Surprised It's taken this long to find one... seems like everyone else has tons of em! I'll treasure it forever...
And of course it's not until just now I find out there was a shipwreck at the park I was at... bah, now I'll have to go back and search more thoroughly! Anyway, that was my first experience detecting at the beach. Definitely not what I'm used to but it was a learning experience for sure. Hopefully just the first of many to come, but until I make it to the coast again it's back to digging at the local parks and forests.
After walking for what seemed liked hours, we noticed a group of people near the vegetation line standing around and pointing at something. We found out why so many people came to this park, it's home to Snowy Owls!
Trying to get a good picture of the owls kept my wife busy for hours while I was combing the beach. I was getting hit after hit but I must have accidentally pressed the "only search for rusty junk" button on my detector because that's all I was finding! Oh well, I was still happy to be finding anything at all, and the majority of the time I dug I actually came up with something rather than striking out completely, so I was happy digging my little holes. It took me a little while to figure out the answer to everything isn't always dig deeper, sometimes you just gotten widen the hole.
After coming up with mostly rusty nails, one nickel, and a slightly sore back I decided to turn in, by this point we had wandered all the way to the end of the park. And now that we were two and a half miles from the car, we found out the weather man had made a mistake. He didn't mean to say 60 degrees, partly cloudy, with a 10% chance of rain... what he must have meant was extremely windy, bitter cold, and 100% chance of getting soaked. Because we got completely drenched three separate times before we managed to get back. Boy was my back sore and I was so thankful my detector only weighed two pounds, couldn't imagine lugging anything heavier than that around! Before we headed back home we decided to check down by Quinault casino since I had remembered seeing a beach access right next to the resort. I figured people winning money at the casino, getting drunk, stumbling around the beach were sure to lose things. As it turns out they lost plenty of things, gum wrappers, bottle caps, tin foil, and just about everything you can thing of besides anything I would actually want to keep! Well, that was it for me, the day was getting late and I was hungry. So we packed up and headed home. On the way back to the highway we passed a few deer, so we had to stop and take a few pictures. They were pretty big, and not shy at all!
In the end I came home pretty much empty handed, but I managed to clear some pretty nasty rusted stuff that looked like it was designed to shred beach goers feet, so at least I did some good. Plus I got to see some pretty neat wildlife and I got plenty more exercise than I planned on getting this weekend, so all in all it was a good trip. I doubt I'll make it back to the beach any time soon but I learned a couple things so hopefully the next time I go I'll do a little better. And here's most of what I dug up:
Mostly scrap, but this thing did look interesting, had a few numbers i could make out, but I'm guessing it just an old part off a boat or something.
And then there was this, at first I thought it was fishing gear or something, but it looked a little too delicate
And... my very first bottle cap! Surprised It's taken this long to find one... seems like everyone else has tons of em! I'll treasure it forever...
And of course it's not until just now I find out there was a shipwreck at the park I was at... bah, now I'll have to go back and search more thoroughly! Anyway, that was my first experience detecting at the beach. Definitely not what I'm used to but it was a learning experience for sure. Hopefully just the first of many to come, but until I make it to the coast again it's back to digging at the local parks and forests.
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Very nice pictures
congratulations
