Punta Cona, Dominican Republic

[mnruxpin]

Whats the best beaches to detect? are there any in DR with hard or rock or solid bed rock bottom?? any advice greatly appreciated..

THanks

 

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[TORRERO]

I wouldn't bucket list it. Good finds are few and far between, there must be many locals and/or tourists hitting the beaches there. I've been many times with minimal results. Yes I've found good stuff, but better elsewhere. Just my thoughts.

I tell people, if you hunt a busy place and find nothing, someone else is almost certainly hunting instead of you...
I remember an experience I had 5-6 years ago in Colombia South America on some Tourist Beaches outside Cartagena or Barranquilla there...
We took a boat to a tourist island where there were chairs and people served you and you paid in cash... and the only way on and off this place (for tourists apparently, I don't know about locals) was via boat... So you go and spend several hours there eating and enjoying the beach, buying beer and food and other stuff... you know...
Sooo I thought there would be tons of stuff in the sand around those chairs and the public areas...
but it soon became clear that someone else MUST be hunting there because I found 2-3 coins and 4-5 pull-tabs
It was as if someone had vacuumed the sand around everything there was such a lack of signals.... But not to be deterred... I entered the water and hunted waist deep and there I found quiet a bit of coins, no major jewelry finds, but a lot of coins... Soo clearly someome was keeping that place clean... Most tourist beaches I hunted in Colombia were like that... Barren.... accept for a private beach I hit with my Girlfriend where only guests were allowed to be...
Found a lot of money there and some jewelry... AND NO... Nobody told me that they saw others hunting these places, just I didn't find anything..

 

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Casper-2
You are one of the best
Congratulations on your major achievements in the water over the years

Im a has been
Im retired and thought id be able to hunt even more
think ive been out less than 10 times in last few yrs
my feet finally got healed - wound just opened up again
i return to doctor next week

 

[CASPER-2]

I tell people, if you hunt a busy place and find nothing, someone else is almost certainly hunting instead of you...
I remember an experience I had 5-6 years ago in Colombia South America on some Tourist Beaches outside Cartagena or Barranquilla there...
We took a boat to a tourist island where there were chairs and people served you and you paid in cash... and the only way on and off this place (for tourists apparently, I don't know about locals) was via boat... So you go and spend several hours there eating and enjoying the beach, buying beer and food and other stuff... you know...
Sooo I thought there would be tons of stuff in the sand around those chairs and the public areas...
but it soon became clear that someone else MUST be hunting there because I found 2-3 coins and 4-5 pull-tabs
It was as if someone had vacuumed the sand around everything there was such a lack of signals.... But not to be deterred... I entered the water and hunted waist deep and there I found quiet a bit of coins, no major jewelry finds, but a lot of coins... Soo clearly someome was keeping that place clean... Most tourist beaches I hunted in Colombia were like that... Barren.... accept for a private beach I hit with my Girlfriend where only guests were allowed to be...
Found a lot of money there and some jewelry... AND NO... Nobody told me that they saw others hunting these places, just I didn't find anything..

if possible - you got to go deeper out or deeper down
I wish i could go farther out at a ton of places - ive found nice gold on my tip toes at neg. low tides
believe me theres more out there
I got spots that get hammered in summer and you may not find a thing cause locals hit daily - got some
spots that get pounded for the new drops but if you hunt slow in all metal - you can get a deep piece of silver or gold still

 

[TORRERO]

if possible - you got to go deeper out or deeper down
I wish i could go farther out at a ton of places - ive found nice gold on my tip toes at neg. low tides
believe me theres more out there
I got spots that get hammered in summer and you may not find a thing cause locals hit daily - got some
spots that get pounded for the new drops but if you hunt slow in all metal - you can get a deep piece of silver or gold still

The machine I had was a Tesoro Tiger Shark or Sand Shark I don't remember and I think for coins it was good for 10-12 inches, so I was certainly getting average depth on the dry sand, it wasn't black sand or anything... I also didn't have a lot of time to try to go further out, it was clear that water had not been hunted so as long as I was getting coins and targets that were good, I stayed where I was... ha ha ha

 

[joska]

What is a NEMO ? this ?

People have been finding gold coins in the area of Fredrick Douglas memorial park since there is a rich wreck offshore and I have two big targets in that same area that could possibly have to do with the wreck.

 

[billb]

Im a has been
Im retired and thought id be able to hunt even more
think ive been out less than 10 times in last few yrs
my feet finally got healed - wound just opened up again
i return to doctor next week

I’m hoping that you will get better soon my friend..

 

[WaterWalker]

great trip i had in Dom.Rep. ...some yrs back

I can remember trips like that, let along typical months way back when. I wish I had pictures of a 3 week hunt in Iceland...two detectorists had over 1400 coins each, over 100 coins in a 4 hour hunt in Connecticut was not uncommon. The days when 5 or 6 gold rings in one day was not uncommon. 5 a month is now difficult to find. But at 77 I may be slowing, but with the improvements in gear I still have many more trips planed, even leaving on a jet plane next week. Detecting is a fabulous hobby where one must change with time. My last 5 ring day swinging an ATX :