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willie d · Aug 23, 2010

Today was NOT a beautiful day at the beach. It started raining 20 minutes after I hit the beach and continued raining for close to 4 hours. Fortunately, the worst of it was the first 30 minutes, which I waited out in a condo parking area. It was coming down in buckets! When it slowed down enough, I got right back at it.

The good thing about the rain was that it kept almost everyone away from the beach. I hit the dry sand areas that were now empty. I dug a bunch of trash, but came away with a keeper.

Finds straight from the pouch

37 coins= $3.10

1952 d wheatie

14k wedding band

gold-digger · Aug 23, 2010

Nice band. That rain was a real set back, especialy when the wind kicked in.

mumszie · Aug 23, 2010

WTG on the keeper! I can't remember..... I know you used to hunt the dry sand but are you now hunting IN the water? No matter. You got some great finds and the keeper makes is a special day rain or not. WTG again. :wink:

txkickergirl · Aug 23, 2010

i am in awe you found matching earrings, I never find the both, only the one, and several of them have been cute making me wish I could locate the matching one.

Congrats on the band too

willie d · Aug 23, 2010

gold-digger said:
Nice band. That rain was a real set back, especialy when the wind kicked in.

Thanks, the wind was whipping pretty good.

willie d · Aug 23, 2010

mumszie said:
WTG on the keeper! I can't remember..... I know you used to hunt the dry sand but are you now hunting IN the water? No matter. You got some great finds and the keeper makes is a special day rain or not. WTG again.

Thanks Mumszie.

Correct Mumszie, I used to hunt the dry sand. Got my Tiger Shark in 07. I had problems with it and Tesoro had it from May 09 - Jul 10. I've been hunting in the water when conditions permit. Conditions did not permit today

willie d · Aug 23, 2010

txkickergirl said:
i am in awe you found matching earrings, I never find the both, only the one, and several of them have been cute making me wish I could locate the matching one.

Congrats on the band too

Thanks Txkickergirl. This is the second time that I've found a matching set of earrings. The other set was rusty junkers that I found in the water 2 years ago. Todays set were about 50 yards apart. 1 was near the water line, the other was behind the towel line. I was pretty surprised that I found the pair.

Silver Surfer · Aug 23, 2010

Thats a pile of trash Willie!! But it looks like persistence paid off with that beauty of a band... You must be in Florida? It didnt rain buckets where I am, but the wind blew me off the water.. Not the roughness (I was on a FW lake), but I couldnt hear squat in my crappy Excal phones.. Doing the Peltor conversion as soon as they arrive..

Smudge · Aug 24, 2010

was going to go metal detecting this weekend and dang if i didn't blow my back out friday night. :BangHead:

With all that rain we ended up getting, guess I shouldn't feel so bad.

But this weekend i'm going even if I gotta crawl.

steelheadwill · Aug 25, 2010

Awesome Ring!!
That is what I'd call A 'Superheavyweight'

willie d · Aug 25, 2010

Silver Surfer said:
Thats a pile of trash Willie!! But it looks like persistence paid off with that beauty of a band... You must be in Florida? It didnt rain buckets where I am, but the wind blew me off the water.. Not the roughness (I was on a FW lake), but I couldnt hear squat in my crappy Excal phones.. Doing the Peltor conversion as soon as they arrive..

Thanks. Yes, I am in FL (west coast).

willie d · Aug 25, 2010

Smudge said:
was going to go metal detecting this weekend and dang if i didn't blow my back out friday night.

With all that rain we ended up getting, guess I shouldn't feel so bad.

But this weekend i'm going even if I gotta crawl.

Ouch! I can relate to the back problems. I was sidelined for 3 months after a back injury.

Rest that back.