Moving to FLA

[Weazel]

Hi all I have not posted for a LONG time. I am moving to Tampa. more specifically Brandon area. wanting to know if there is anything I should know about the beaches etc where MDing is concerned.

I have never done any beach hunting just farm/relic hunting and looking forward to trying my luck on the beach.

Any help/knowledge will be greatly apreciated.

Thanks

[godisnum1]

You can only detect from the toe of the sand dunes to the tide line on most beaches; though there are plenty of guys that hunt out in the water.
Oh, and don't hate the pulltabs & bottle caps... it's not their fault they get strewn all over.

Bran <><

[Weazel]

I did notice one thing very nice about the beaches on the gulf coast, all the public trash cans where you can put the trash you find in instead of having to lug it around. at least at the one area of the beach I went to at treasure island.

Oh one question. where I went to that beach there was not much of a dune to mark where you can start, unless where the large log like a telephone pole only thicker, between the public entrance/parking and the water was. so would that log mark the dune line?

[godisnum1]

I did notice one thing very nice about the beaches on the gulf coast, all the public trash cans where you can put the trash you find in instead of having to lug it around. at least at the one area of the beach I went to at treasure island.

Oh one question. where I went to that beach there was not much of a dune to mark where you can start, unless where the large log like a telephone pole only thicker, between the public entrance/parking and the water was. so would that log mark the dune line?

That is a good thing about our beaches, they all usually have trashcans spread throughout the beach.

And as far as Treasure Island... if you were detecting by where John's Pass is located, then yes, it should be after the large logs. Just make sure you're detecting on flat sand where everyone else walks and lays out and you should be fine. Don't ever detect next to walkways where any vegetation is growing, especially sea oats because they're ALWAYS on the sand dune areas... plus it's a protected plant.

Bran <><

[Jon Phillips]

You can hunt in the water all you want if the beach isn't a state park...unless the county, or city, has adopted the stricter state park regulations.