CASPER-2
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Florida's gold was safe from me
worst trip to Fla. Ive ever had
would like to thank everyone that invited me to hook up - most were for places 2+ hrs from where I stayed
and my gal was doing all the driving - so I did not want her to have to do a 2+ there and 2+ back when she was there to get some rest and sun
arrived on sunday before low tide - but winds were around 20mph and waves were high - no one was in the water
I walked in to check bottom - no viz and I was getting tossed - so gave up on trying to hunt
went back to room and got my new mask to try out in the pool - test was pretty good
you can breathe thru you nose and/or mouth - only negative was your mouth breathing heats up the mask - nothing you can do about that
in cold conditions - this might be a positive
I went across the pool - dove to bottom and made like I was fanning for a target - on the way back to other side - saw $1 bill on the bottom
snagged it and surfaced - looked around and there was a couple like 30 feet away - both wearing bathing suits so figured they did not lose it
swam to the side where my gal was sitting she came over and I handed it to her - told her mask was pretty good told her I was going to play around some more with it
dove back under and saw another bill on the bottom - it was a $10 - surfaced and looked around - I was alone in pool now - dove back under and found a room card key
went back to my gal and handed her the 10 - I went along the side of the pool to people sunning and asked if anyone lost their room key - everyone checked and they said they all had theirs - so we returned it to the desk
Monday - - winds had died over night a little - they were still like 10-15mph - not as many big waves but water was still rough - I jumped in before low
and walked like chest deep to the south - looked for hard bottom but never found any - headed back to area in front of my resort and hit a small patch where I was getting some rocks and shells
viz was still zero - could not see my coil or scoop but I was finding coins in a small stretch - some were deep and brown and green so I knew no o ne had been there in a little while - I expected to find some gold but not to be - I was hurting from kidney stone and got out earlier than I'd planned to get a pain killer
I was hurting whole time down there - and was living off pain killers all the while - I did not get much sleep - was hoping if I got into some gold - would take my mind off some of the pain
getting bashed around by waves and rough waters didn't help
Tuesday- winds picked up again - stopped by South beach and no one was in water - largest waves ive ever seen there - moved on to a more sheltered back up spot
not much better - roughest water Ive seen there too - no viz again and was just finding a lot of new pennies - moved after about an hour and got into a spot with a little viz and a little calmer
started finding other coins besides pennies - a lot were deep and in hard soil and clay - so had to work for them - ended up with at least one silver quarter (have to check others)
thought I might get gold with the coins I was finding but No
Wednesday - decided to give South bch a try again - only surfers in the water - I got in and got battered - kept getting knocked off good targets
hit a few spots with coins but just to hard to hunt - rip currents pushing me one way and pulling in another - got out and headed north
jumped out of car at a few spots and ran to water to find a spot - finally after 4th try - found a spot where far out sand bar/reef was knocking down the waves enough
got in and started finding coins - many were in hard bottom that was under about 4 ins of sand - which was a good sign - I hit a few small spots that held a fair amount of coins
still no viz - still getting pushed around - hunting was still no picnic but I was finding more good than bad
cold front was moving in and air temp dropped - my gal I knew wanted to head out - started to head back and got blast - ended up being large silver band - checked around that area
hoping there might be some gold too - but No
item to right of $10 bill - I thought was junk - but it has loupes and flowers on it - its silver and is like a tube - other half is missing (had I known it was some sort of jewelry -would have looked for chain and other half) will have to work on it - it has a small plastic bag in it - might be coke or crack holder
Thursday woke up early hoping to get out one last time - waves and winds were high again and went back to bed
gave it the ole college try but came up short - had some good food and 80 degree weather beat the 40s back home
was hoping to end this year on a high note but not to be - don't know if I'll be doing any cold water hunting in Dec. so this might have been my last times out for 2014
Hope all had a great holiday - Good luck to all for the rest of this year !
worst trip to Fla. Ive ever had
would like to thank everyone that invited me to hook up - most were for places 2+ hrs from where I stayed
and my gal was doing all the driving - so I did not want her to have to do a 2+ there and 2+ back when she was there to get some rest and sun
arrived on sunday before low tide - but winds were around 20mph and waves were high - no one was in the water
I walked in to check bottom - no viz and I was getting tossed - so gave up on trying to hunt
went back to room and got my new mask to try out in the pool - test was pretty good
you can breathe thru you nose and/or mouth - only negative was your mouth breathing heats up the mask - nothing you can do about that
in cold conditions - this might be a positive
I went across the pool - dove to bottom and made like I was fanning for a target - on the way back to other side - saw $1 bill on the bottom
snagged it and surfaced - looked around and there was a couple like 30 feet away - both wearing bathing suits so figured they did not lose it
swam to the side where my gal was sitting she came over and I handed it to her - told her mask was pretty good told her I was going to play around some more with it
dove back under and saw another bill on the bottom - it was a $10 - surfaced and looked around - I was alone in pool now - dove back under and found a room card key
went back to my gal and handed her the 10 - I went along the side of the pool to people sunning and asked if anyone lost their room key - everyone checked and they said they all had theirs - so we returned it to the desk
Monday - - winds had died over night a little - they were still like 10-15mph - not as many big waves but water was still rough - I jumped in before low
and walked like chest deep to the south - looked for hard bottom but never found any - headed back to area in front of my resort and hit a small patch where I was getting some rocks and shells
viz was still zero - could not see my coil or scoop but I was finding coins in a small stretch - some were deep and brown and green so I knew no o ne had been there in a little while - I expected to find some gold but not to be - I was hurting from kidney stone and got out earlier than I'd planned to get a pain killer
I was hurting whole time down there - and was living off pain killers all the while - I did not get much sleep - was hoping if I got into some gold - would take my mind off some of the pain
getting bashed around by waves and rough waters didn't help
Tuesday- winds picked up again - stopped by South beach and no one was in water - largest waves ive ever seen there - moved on to a more sheltered back up spot
not much better - roughest water Ive seen there too - no viz again and was just finding a lot of new pennies - moved after about an hour and got into a spot with a little viz and a little calmer
started finding other coins besides pennies - a lot were deep and in hard soil and clay - so had to work for them - ended up with at least one silver quarter (have to check others)
thought I might get gold with the coins I was finding but No
Wednesday - decided to give South bch a try again - only surfers in the water - I got in and got battered - kept getting knocked off good targets
hit a few spots with coins but just to hard to hunt - rip currents pushing me one way and pulling in another - got out and headed north
jumped out of car at a few spots and ran to water to find a spot - finally after 4th try - found a spot where far out sand bar/reef was knocking down the waves enough
got in and started finding coins - many were in hard bottom that was under about 4 ins of sand - which was a good sign - I hit a few small spots that held a fair amount of coins
still no viz - still getting pushed around - hunting was still no picnic but I was finding more good than bad
cold front was moving in and air temp dropped - my gal I knew wanted to head out - started to head back and got blast - ended up being large silver band - checked around that area
hoping there might be some gold too - but No
item to right of $10 bill - I thought was junk - but it has loupes and flowers on it - its silver and is like a tube - other half is missing (had I known it was some sort of jewelry -would have looked for chain and other half) will have to work on it - it has a small plastic bag in it - might be coke or crack holder
Thursday woke up early hoping to get out one last time - waves and winds were high again and went back to bed
gave it the ole college try but came up short - had some good food and 80 degree weather beat the 40s back home
was hoping to end this year on a high note but not to be - don't know if I'll be doing any cold water hunting in Dec. so this might have been my last times out for 2014
Hope all had a great holiday - Good luck to all for the rest of this year !
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