mumszie
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First warm day after a hard freeze and I went out. Drove all the way down to CWB and had problems right off the bat. I didn't check my machine before I left. I got all my gear together and walked to the sand and turn the machine on and - nothing. The batteries were dead! Sheesh. DUH! A real "newbie" mistake. WHEN WILL I LEARN? 
I had planned on hitting a couple of places today so I had put my Garrett in the car as well so all was not lost. I walked back to the car and switched machines. My Garrett is a great machine and I love it but not for the beach. I had to stay in the dry sand. Every time I got near the wet areas it would sound off. The brochures "say" you can hunt the beach with it and you can even go in the water with the coil but I've found that with mine - that just isn't true. So I stayed in the dry sand. I marked myself off a big square in front of one of the hotels and decided to just grid that area. My third pass around I noticed a sign saying that the beach was for hotel patrons only. DUH! Why had I never noticed those signs before? I started looking at other hotels along the beach and sure enough more of them had the same type of sign. Private beach for hotel patrons and members only. I never knew Clearwater Beach was private? Or at least certain areas of it such as in front of the Hilton and Sandpearl hotels. Well I wasn't the only one there anyway. I saw at least 7 other hunters out there this morning and two of them even crossed the area I had marked off to grid. I didn't stop and talk to any of them this morning. My total for hunting the dry sand... 58 cents!
Then I left to check out a new park I had just heard about and as I was driving I noticed another sign for a park. I've noticed this sign before but never paid much attention to it. This morning I turned around and went back to the park. I didn't care for the park much but it turned out to be the best place that I hunted this morning. I found most of my clad at this little park but I got there too late and people were already there with their kids and setting up for birthday parties so I did not hang around too long. I did manage to find an Asian coin there with all the other clad I found.
On I went to the park that I had intended to check out in the first place. I found very little there but as I said it was getting late in the day to hunt the tot lots. There were no kids there but I still didn't find much there.
Then I wanted to check out if the causeway was open yet for Howard Park beach and there is a small tot lot there. I went over that pretty quick and only found 1 penny and 1 dime. The causeway will not be open for the beach area until the fall of 2009 so I guess that beach is out for this coming summer.
Oh well - my total for this morning was $2.93 in clad and one Asian coin. No jewelry. It was a beautiful morning and was great to be out. I'm happy. Hope your day went as well without the small problems I had. LOL
I had planned on hitting a couple of places today so I had put my Garrett in the car as well so all was not lost. I walked back to the car and switched machines. My Garrett is a great machine and I love it but not for the beach. I had to stay in the dry sand. Every time I got near the wet areas it would sound off. The brochures "say" you can hunt the beach with it and you can even go in the water with the coil but I've found that with mine - that just isn't true. So I stayed in the dry sand. I marked myself off a big square in front of one of the hotels and decided to just grid that area. My third pass around I noticed a sign saying that the beach was for hotel patrons only. DUH! Why had I never noticed those signs before? I started looking at other hotels along the beach and sure enough more of them had the same type of sign. Private beach for hotel patrons and members only. I never knew Clearwater Beach was private? Or at least certain areas of it such as in front of the Hilton and Sandpearl hotels. Well I wasn't the only one there anyway. I saw at least 7 other hunters out there this morning and two of them even crossed the area I had marked off to grid. I didn't stop and talk to any of them this morning. My total for hunting the dry sand... 58 cents! Then I left to check out a new park I had just heard about and as I was driving I noticed another sign for a park. I've noticed this sign before but never paid much attention to it. This morning I turned around and went back to the park. I didn't care for the park much but it turned out to be the best place that I hunted this morning. I found most of my clad at this little park but I got there too late and people were already there with their kids and setting up for birthday parties so I did not hang around too long. I did manage to find an Asian coin there with all the other clad I found.
On I went to the park that I had intended to check out in the first place. I found very little there but as I said it was getting late in the day to hunt the tot lots. There were no kids there but I still didn't find much there.
Then I wanted to check out if the causeway was open yet for Howard Park beach and there is a small tot lot there. I went over that pretty quick and only found 1 penny and 1 dime. The causeway will not be open for the beach area until the fall of 2009 so I guess that beach is out for this coming summer.
Oh well - my total for this morning was $2.93 in clad and one Asian coin. No jewelry. It was a beautiful morning and was great to be out. I'm happy. Hope your day went as well without the small problems I had. LOL
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