Avila beach

[G-bone]

Anyone been up here and if so any tips?
My first thought is that it has to be hunted out.

I have my gear in case I get a Jones to swing.

Cheers all

 

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[RustyGold]

I'd say go for it. Avila has some nice areas to detect and it's out of the way.
Best of luck!

 

[cudamark]

Beaches change with every tide change. They're never hunted out.

 

[Rodbuster209]

If you feel Avila beach might hunted out, you could always try Pismo or Grover beaches. Plenty of beach there! Good luck!

 

[G-bone]

Beaches change with every tide change. They're never hunted out.

You are indeed correct.

 

[Tom_in_CA]

I hunted Avila beach once, when traveling through that area about 15 yrs. ago. It was right after some storm action had occurred a few days earlier. We started getting into some pockets on the wet. Even a silver coin or two & a gold ring. So our hopes ran high. But unfortunately we were only on the tailing edge of earlier day's erosion, which was sanding back in on the day we were there.

After an hour there, a local guy showed up, with a cheapie Radio Shack, and a kid's plastic sand pale to dig with. We chatted with him, and learned that a few days earlier, he'd found something like a dozen silver coins, amongst his coins and targets. Yet the day we were there with him that day, he struggled to get 2 or 3 coins, while we had 70+ each. I can only figure then, that with his machine and experience limitation, that it must have been AWEFULLY thick there a few days earlier after the initial storm. Always made me sort of sick thinking of how much got sanded back over there.

Right now, the entire coast of CA has been calm (no swells) for a long time. So no doubt it's sanded in. But "deposits" are always being made