Hello All
My wife & I love to metal detect our many beaches around Pismo Beach, CA and have also detected the east coast on vacations. We are slated to go to Hawaii for 3 weeks in January and could sure use some input. A friend who also detects around here told me that the "locals" in Hawaii, can get SERIOUSLY territorial and can become hostile to the point of violence if you are found detecting "Their" beach. Even to the point of slashed tires or stolen equipment. Is that true? Has anyone had any bad experiences taking your detectors to Hawaii? We have Minelab Excal, & Sovereign Detectors, and don't want any big hassle, or worse, to loose our equipment.
2ndly How do you get your equipment their "Cheaply"? We plan on taking the electronic detector parts in our carry on bags for safety & I just bought a plastic hard sided "golf club bag" that can go on the airline for the sand scoops, coils, and the rest. But per Hawaiian airlines rules, If this hard sided golf bag case were full of golf clubs, it would be treated as such, and only incur the usual extra suitcase fee, ($35). Yet, if you declare it to be something other than golf clubs in the case, they charge you for the linear inches of the bag, (79") which is an additional $100.00 per flight, and we have 3 flights in this trip. (CA to Maui, to Kaui, back to CA). So, $35.00 for the "2nd bag fee", then $100 if they discover them to be detectors and not golf clubs = $405.00 to take them. (Won't they x ray the bag?) When we took our detectors to the east coast we shipped UPS, but to ship this case to Hawaii for our 3 legged trip was a huge $654.67 estimate!
Depending on the answers to the first question, we may just leave the detectors at home, save the potential $405, and return the hard sided golf club case to the store... I hope someone has some positive idea's.
Thank You
1Beachnut
My wife & I love to metal detect our many beaches around Pismo Beach, CA and have also detected the east coast on vacations. We are slated to go to Hawaii for 3 weeks in January and could sure use some input. A friend who also detects around here told me that the "locals" in Hawaii, can get SERIOUSLY territorial and can become hostile to the point of violence if you are found detecting "Their" beach. Even to the point of slashed tires or stolen equipment. Is that true? Has anyone had any bad experiences taking your detectors to Hawaii? We have Minelab Excal, & Sovereign Detectors, and don't want any big hassle, or worse, to loose our equipment.
2ndly How do you get your equipment their "Cheaply"? We plan on taking the electronic detector parts in our carry on bags for safety & I just bought a plastic hard sided "golf club bag" that can go on the airline for the sand scoops, coils, and the rest. But per Hawaiian airlines rules, If this hard sided golf bag case were full of golf clubs, it would be treated as such, and only incur the usual extra suitcase fee, ($35). Yet, if you declare it to be something other than golf clubs in the case, they charge you for the linear inches of the bag, (79") which is an additional $100.00 per flight, and we have 3 flights in this trip. (CA to Maui, to Kaui, back to CA). So, $35.00 for the "2nd bag fee", then $100 if they discover them to be detectors and not golf clubs = $405.00 to take them. (Won't they x ray the bag?) When we took our detectors to the east coast we shipped UPS, but to ship this case to Hawaii for our 3 legged trip was a huge $654.67 estimate!
Depending on the answers to the first question, we may just leave the detectors at home, save the potential $405, and return the hard sided golf club case to the store... I hope someone has some positive idea's.
Thank You
1Beachnut
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I think it is a GREAT IDEA and will try it. I mean really, a case is a case, and if it weighs less than 50 pounds what do they care what is in it, or not!!!
