Beach Hunting by boat

[FLauthor]

Invited my new TH'ing buddy, Victoria to join me TH'ing a beach on a freshwater lake. I hadn't hunted it since the droughts of 1999. There were a group of residents playing and swimming at the beach. Victoria happened to met the President of the Home Owners Association and gained permission to hunt the grounds whenever we wanted to. In Florida, you can hunt any navigaible waters with boat docks and private beaches as long as you arrive and leave by the water and you stay in the water. Property Owners ownership ends at the edge of the water. Many of our lakes have sand bottoms and nearly every house has a boat dock and private beach.
Victoria didn't do as well as myself finding about 25 cents in change. Myself, I found $1.34 in change and a silver ring with a emerald type stone. Not bad for a few hours of hunting. It was a nice way to spend the day with somebody as obsessed with TH'ing as myself.

 

[DaChief]

Nice haul!

 

[Samuelben]

nice coins was it all clad?

 

[Cavedweller]

Its all fun - and a ring to boot

 

[desertfox]

Interesting way to get to your hunt sites. Have any homeowners tried to run you off? Happy Hunting

Desertfox

 

[Monty]

You have hit on one of my most closely gurarded secrets of freshwater detecting. Well, not really a secret, but just a bit of logic that makes a lot of difference. I live very close to a large freshwater man made lake with lots of sandy beaches that can only be reached by boat. In the summer months the boaters and sun worshipers and just families flock to these beaches by boat. Two summers ago I spent quite a bit of time detecting these beaches since I had a small boat to get to them. I found many coins and several rings including a couple of gold ones and several silver ones along with a bunch of small silver toe rings and silver earrings. Since then my health has made a turn for the worse and I have had to sell my boat so I haven't been able to get back to them. Hopefully my health is getting better and I can invest in a small boat just for that purpose in the coming months. Nothing fancy, just basic safe water transportation. Here in OK although they have unrestricted access the abuting property owners can't own the last couple of hundred feet from the normal waterline as it is designated flood zones, so most of the beaches are open for detecting. So, any of you fishermen might think to toss your detector in the boat and if the fish aren't biting, go "fishing" for treasure. Monty