A Visit to Dream Beach

[Southern_Digger]

No such beach that I am aware of... but stumbled on it today during a 4.25 hr low tide hunt with my Excalibur 1. It is a beach that caters to the detectorist and defies the laws of physics. Sandy changed the geological nature of our SE Florida beaches, this is how Dream Beach came about. The name, of course, came in a dream about me searching the sand, finding coins and jewelry -- and no trash whatsoever. The beach is only 75-yds in length. There is a 2-6ft bluff caused by Sandy removing much sand and placing it in the ocean. The beach slopes nearly 40-degrees from the bluff to the water. Hence, anything on the slope gets washed back into the ocean... right! Not so at Dream Beach. On the slope were numerous targets. I was supposed to hunt the water today but I ended up spending 3 hrs searching this beach instead. I thought I was dreaming. Coin after coin after coins; occasional jewelry; and, no trash. I was just over one hour into the hunt when I found my first pulltab. At 2 hrs and 10 minutes into the hunt, I dug my first bottlecap. I finally left Dream Beach behind me and searched the shoreline and thence, the water to the south--finding most of the trash in photo. I did get a big signal in 2-ft of water. I dug it to 2 1/2 ft deep and could not reach it. Finally gave up after 20 minutes of attempting. Near end of hunt and Christmas Dinner scheduled tonight for wife's company, I hit the water off Dream Beach as tide was surging in. More coins and a ring. In all, I pulled 50+ coins off Dream Beach along with three rings. A fourth ring came from the water.

The Trash


Unusual Whatzit... Made of Resin with rocks pushed into it. Copper wire at bottom




Keychain -- destined for an acid bath


The Take


Rings aren't very valuable, but some are silver. Further cleaning will reveal their composition.

 

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[joeismad]

That's an interesting thing, whatever it is. Can you post another picture after you clean it up?

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[BosnMate]

That's an interesting thing, whatever it is. Can you post another picture after you clean it up?

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Absolutely an interesting thing of a jig. Can't imagine what it might be.

 

[g-olden years]

Wow, what a groovy day! Any chance that whatzit is homemade fishing line weight? Hope you find more dream beaches soon! Andi

 

[PeteWmass]

my (somewhat crazy) brother-in-law made one of those resin-with-metal things.......says it has something to do with weather modification....(?)....it looks exactly like that.........

 

[Terry Soloman]

Congratulations on the super finds! I have found resin and plastic like that with wire in it from boats that burned and sank off shore. It is a neat find, and I always wish my mystery finds could talk.

 

[Southern_Digger]

my (somewhat crazy) brother-in-law made one of those resin-with-metal things.......says it has something to do with weather modification....(?)....it looks exactly like that.........

Thanks for information. I will look into that lead.