waseeker
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Well it was off to Texas for a week of vacation and a bit of hunting on Mustang & Padre Islands. While getting my county beach parking pass, one of the rangers told me about another county park where there had been some fresh water showers that had been recently removed. He also told me he had seen someone there a couple of weeks ago with a MD and that the guy left with a "bag" of quarters.
Of course I had to go check it out
Here's a picture of the showers before they were taken down.
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From what I was able to learn, when built some 40 years ago the floor of this structure was some 4-5 feet above the ground. As you can see from the above picture, sand drift over time has brought the sand up to the level of the floor.
I got out there kinda late the first afternoon, and it was very difficult to even tell that someone had been digging there let alone figure out where the showers had been. However, with some help from the ranger on duty I figured out where they had been and started a grid search. Traveling only north/south I was able to pick up a bit more than $5.60 in change, most of it in quarters all within 3-5 inches of the surface.
I had figured out pretty quick that I would need something more than my sand scoop for this area. so it was back to town to purchase a small shovel and then spend a loooonngg night waiting for daylight so I could go at it again.
I had just gotten started the next morning when a truck pulls up to the site and a guy asked if I had found anything. I said I had just started and asked if he was the one who had been hunting this site. He said he was and that the first day he had pulled $74.00 in quarters from the site. He and his buddy had spent 3 more days there digging ditches and pits and pulling lots more quarters. We spent the next 4-5 hours happily playing in the sand and pocketing more quarters.
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My totals for the area were 110 quarters; 23 dimes; 10 nickels and 39 cents for a total of $30.69.
As for the rare pic - my wife came by and was able to snap this picture of a waseeker in it's natural habitat.
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Of course I had to go check it out
Here's a picture of the showers before they were taken down.
[attach = 1]
From what I was able to learn, when built some 40 years ago the floor of this structure was some 4-5 feet above the ground. As you can see from the above picture, sand drift over time has brought the sand up to the level of the floor.
I got out there kinda late the first afternoon, and it was very difficult to even tell that someone had been digging there let alone figure out where the showers had been. However, with some help from the ranger on duty I figured out where they had been and started a grid search. Traveling only north/south I was able to pick up a bit more than $5.60 in change, most of it in quarters all within 3-5 inches of the surface.
I had figured out pretty quick that I would need something more than my sand scoop for this area. so it was back to town to purchase a small shovel and then spend a loooonngg night waiting for daylight so I could go at it again.
I had just gotten started the next morning when a truck pulls up to the site and a guy asked if I had found anything. I said I had just started and asked if he was the one who had been hunting this site. He said he was and that the first day he had pulled $74.00 in quarters from the site. He and his buddy had spent 3 more days there digging ditches and pits and pulling lots more quarters. We spent the next 4-5 hours happily playing in the sand and pocketing more quarters.
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My totals for the area were 110 quarters; 23 dimes; 10 nickels and 39 cents for a total of $30.69.
As for the rare pic - my wife came by and was able to snap this picture of a waseeker in it's natural habitat.
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