Frodov
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Beach Finds !
Greetings everyone from North Myrtle Beach South Carolina, my wife Val and I are vacationing here. Once every year or every other year (budget providing), we try to get away from our work a day life at home and make a getaway to the beach. Of course like any other diehard metal detector enthusiast I bring my detector along. Now the fact that I live several hundred miles from the nearest shoreline and sandy beaches, my detector is more appropriate to dry land detecting as apposed to the fellows here locally that hunt the surf and wet sand. I may not be able to get out in the surf and wet to find those really nice gold and silver trinkets and things that people lose while swimming in the ocean, but I can hunt the dry sand to my hearts content. Well, till my legs give out or my loving darling wife’s patience gives out anyway. <smile>
This trip to the beach was dampened on our first day here due to the rather wet reception that mother nature greeted us with on our first full day at the beach. It RAINED! It didn’t rain all day of course, thankfully, but it led us to explore other avenues of entertainment for the day. So no metal detecting on the first day. Not to worry though, I still got my fix for beach hunting the next day. After an early breakfast of biscuits, sausage and eggs… early for vacation that is… we headed to the beach in front of the hotel about 9:30 in the morning. Now I know all you out there familiar with the habits of the indigenous beach combers who are up before the crickets and crabs detecting the dunes and surf, know that I didn’t stand much of a chance of discovering anything. Well, it’s not far from the truth. I didn’t discover very much, not on the beach in front of our hotel, and not very much on any other stretch of the beach along this part of the coast. All in all I think I searched three sections of beach. I KNOW for a fact that I searched just over 3 miles of beach, thanks to my pedometer I was wearing. Now to most people that wouldn’t sound like much ground to cover, or walk, but remember, that 3 miles was in SAND! Loose sand at that, not the firmly packed wet sand near the surf, so that 3 miles felt more like 6 or even 8 miles traveled at the end of the day.. to my very tired legs and feet anyway. I didn’t find that much either. Oh I had fun, I always have fun detecting, even if I have to stop 12 to 15 times a trip to speak to some curious observer and report on my treasures found so far. <laughing> You all know the look you get when you tell or show someone a handful of can slaw and pull tabs you’ve been so industriously digging up in the hot sun and sand (or ground or woodchips). That look that says “Oh you poor dimwitted dreamer, you must not have a clue in the world do you?” <laughing> Of course one rarely shows the handful of coins and the occasional piece of bling that are also weighing down your finds bag. Well as luck would have it, there wasn’t a terribly lot of weight in my finds bag on my one day of beach hunting. Oh I found some coins, and a few other odds and ends, but even pull tabs were scarce this trip. Partly I think because Val and I are several weeks earlier on our beach vacation than we would normally be here, it’s still very early and off-season at the beach. There just haven’t been that many people on the beach yet this year. Oh well, I still had fun, the beach is still relaxing and we’ve enjoyed our stay this year. Still though, I’m glad that I hadn’t been counting on beach finds paying for anything on this trip… I’d be walking home. <laughing> As it is, I barely found enough to cover a gallon of gas for the trip home. I got plenty of exercise, some sun (no burns this year) a handful of coins and a few other odds and ends including a pair of reading glasses and even a kitchen “butter” knife of all things.
Of course my darling wife got loads of pictures of the beach, including a few of me hard at work..er.. play, detecting.
I had the opportunity to go out on the beach, somewhere around here, and detect some more today, but my poor abused legs and feet were just not going to have any of that today.. you know that feeling of being on the very cusp of a cramp or charley horse? That’s what my legs have felt like all day. *sigh* I guess I’ll just have to get my next beach hunting fix next year or later. I’ll still be on vacation when we get back home this weekend, so I might be able to get out and detect some more closer to home, at least the walking around will be easier. As for tonight.. it’s some advil, a good night’s sleep and a LONG LONG drive home tomorrow. I hope you all enjoyed the week, or the coming weekend as the case may be. Get out and do some treasure hunting of your own.. as always..
~HAPPY HUNTING~
Frodov
Greetings everyone from North Myrtle Beach South Carolina, my wife Val and I are vacationing here. Once every year or every other year (budget providing), we try to get away from our work a day life at home and make a getaway to the beach. Of course like any other diehard metal detector enthusiast I bring my detector along. Now the fact that I live several hundred miles from the nearest shoreline and sandy beaches, my detector is more appropriate to dry land detecting as apposed to the fellows here locally that hunt the surf and wet sand. I may not be able to get out in the surf and wet to find those really nice gold and silver trinkets and things that people lose while swimming in the ocean, but I can hunt the dry sand to my hearts content. Well, till my legs give out or my loving darling wife’s patience gives out anyway. <smile>
This trip to the beach was dampened on our first day here due to the rather wet reception that mother nature greeted us with on our first full day at the beach. It RAINED! It didn’t rain all day of course, thankfully, but it led us to explore other avenues of entertainment for the day. So no metal detecting on the first day. Not to worry though, I still got my fix for beach hunting the next day. After an early breakfast of biscuits, sausage and eggs… early for vacation that is… we headed to the beach in front of the hotel about 9:30 in the morning. Now I know all you out there familiar with the habits of the indigenous beach combers who are up before the crickets and crabs detecting the dunes and surf, know that I didn’t stand much of a chance of discovering anything. Well, it’s not far from the truth. I didn’t discover very much, not on the beach in front of our hotel, and not very much on any other stretch of the beach along this part of the coast. All in all I think I searched three sections of beach. I KNOW for a fact that I searched just over 3 miles of beach, thanks to my pedometer I was wearing. Now to most people that wouldn’t sound like much ground to cover, or walk, but remember, that 3 miles was in SAND! Loose sand at that, not the firmly packed wet sand near the surf, so that 3 miles felt more like 6 or even 8 miles traveled at the end of the day.. to my very tired legs and feet anyway. I didn’t find that much either. Oh I had fun, I always have fun detecting, even if I have to stop 12 to 15 times a trip to speak to some curious observer and report on my treasures found so far. <laughing> You all know the look you get when you tell or show someone a handful of can slaw and pull tabs you’ve been so industriously digging up in the hot sun and sand (or ground or woodchips). That look that says “Oh you poor dimwitted dreamer, you must not have a clue in the world do you?” <laughing> Of course one rarely shows the handful of coins and the occasional piece of bling that are also weighing down your finds bag. Well as luck would have it, there wasn’t a terribly lot of weight in my finds bag on my one day of beach hunting. Oh I found some coins, and a few other odds and ends, but even pull tabs were scarce this trip. Partly I think because Val and I are several weeks earlier on our beach vacation than we would normally be here, it’s still very early and off-season at the beach. There just haven’t been that many people on the beach yet this year. Oh well, I still had fun, the beach is still relaxing and we’ve enjoyed our stay this year. Still though, I’m glad that I hadn’t been counting on beach finds paying for anything on this trip… I’d be walking home. <laughing> As it is, I barely found enough to cover a gallon of gas for the trip home. I got plenty of exercise, some sun (no burns this year) a handful of coins and a few other odds and ends including a pair of reading glasses and even a kitchen “butter” knife of all things.
Of course my darling wife got loads of pictures of the beach, including a few of me hard at work..er.. play, detecting.
I had the opportunity to go out on the beach, somewhere around here, and detect some more today, but my poor abused legs and feet were just not going to have any of that today.. you know that feeling of being on the very cusp of a cramp or charley horse? That’s what my legs have felt like all day. *sigh* I guess I’ll just have to get my next beach hunting fix next year or later. I’ll still be on vacation when we get back home this weekend, so I might be able to get out and detect some more closer to home, at least the walking around will be easier. As for tonight.. it’s some advil, a good night’s sleep and a LONG LONG drive home tomorrow. I hope you all enjoyed the week, or the coming weekend as the case may be. Get out and do some treasure hunting of your own.. as always..
~HAPPY HUNTING~
Frodov
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