How do you guys handle heat and sun?

[TrashureSeeker]

Hi guys,

I wonder if you have any tips to share for dealing with the sun and heat while detecting. My own secret tip would probably be to get one of these water bladder backpacks, I have a Camelbak Mule and it's so much more convenient to stay hydrated when you don't have to keep grabbing a bottle or getting the backpack off. Granted it looks a bit stupid, but then again I'm walking along the beach sweeping a coil over the ground so

So what do you do against the heat? Light coloured, loose fitting clothes and a sombrero the size of a restaurant umbrella?

 

[G.I.B.]

I'm off the beach by 10am and not back on before 6pm.

 

[frogmaster-riviera]

Detecting at night time ??


Or... in the middle of the afternoon, wet sand, beach is not crowded, no sunburn...... cool metal detection session @-100ft !

 

[Ammoman]

Go Early in the morning or late in the evening or better yet...night time only. Stay out of the sun! If you feel you have to be in the sun...cover up from head to toe. looking like you just stumbled in from the saudi desert is not a bad thing.

 

[ARC]

When I hit the beach it is dark turning light if I can time it right.

When I start to cook... Or crowds begin... I leave.

Also... Sunset for an hour... but not as much in summer.

 

[penzfan]

Long sleeve Dry Wick shirts, light weight Swim Trunks, White Baseball Cap, Mission Multi-Cool neck wrap and Drink 2 liters of H2O before hitting the beach. I'm good for 4 hours...

 

[TrashureSeeker]

All sound advice, now if only I could get out of bed early

 

[Deft Tones]

Wet my clothes/hat with water. Any breeze blowing through wet clothes keeps me cool enough in the heat. And avoid direst sun mid-day.

 

[frogmaster-riviera]

Cap is not enough under the sun...

 

[ARC]

Arrrrg.

Its funny... I see cooked tourists all the time.

But the scale tippers on sunburns are the passed out drunks on the beach that occasionally are a speed bump in the sand.
More than once I feel I have saved a guys life simply by waking them.
Red as lobsters.
One guy I thought for sure was dead...
He had pissed himself and all.

ALL were severely cooked. I mean WELL done.

Worst thing to do is to pass out in the sun. sheesh.

 

[TrashureSeeker]

Arrrrg.

Its funny... I see cooked tourists all the time.

But the scale tippers on sunburns are the passed out drunks on the beach that occasionally are a speed bump in the sand.
More than once I feel I have saved a guys life simply by waking them.
Red as lobsters.
One guy I thought for sure was dead...
He had pissed himself and all.

ALL were severely cooked. I mean WELL done.

Worst thing to do is to pass out in the sun. sheesh.

Oh yeah I know that kind. "Look ma, no shirt" and they still look as if they are wearing their favourite red tshirt. Over here in Germany it's the British that love doing that.

 

[Deft Tones]

Worst thing to do is to pass out in the sun. sheesh.

I was 14 and walking the beach looking at people. I had seen a drunk passed out with his junk hanging out. I got in the water and kept an eye on him for over three hours until I caught him walking bow-legged and gingerly towards the parking lot.

I wonder how bad he peeled.

 

[cudamark]

Worst I ever saw was a red headed guy passed out on the beach in the late afternoon. He must have been that way all day as he already had 2nd degree blisters on his exposed skin. It looked so painful that I didn't even want to touch him to wake him up, so, I dripped some water from my drinking bottle onto his head. He sputtered to life and immediately went into spread eagle walking mode with that "don't even think about touching me" mode. When he came to his senses, he thanked me and hobbled off. If he didn't peel at least 3 times, that would surprise me. He was in for a painful week or more with those burns. I like to hunt at night in the dead of summer, but, that isn't always possible with some of my hunting buddies or some of our hunting spots, so, if I have to hunt in the sun, I use lots of sunscreen, a hat, and bring plenty of water.

 

[frogmaster-riviera]

And the winner is :

She's from Texas isn't she ?

TH girl friend probably

 

[TrashureSeeker]

And the winner is :

She's from Texas isn't she ?

TH girl friend probably

Yeah that last one is just fake, no way she's carrying with all that hippie stuff on wrist and hips

 

[ARC]

Yeah that last one is just fake, no way she's carrying with all that hippie stuff on wrist and hips

You must have never been to Florida ... heh

 

[TrashureSeeker]

You must have never been to Florida ... heh

Or to the US in fact I'm still confused by the guy who talked to me while I was bagging up my detector the other day who first asked "what is that machine" and then "oh interesting. So do you eat meat?" I say yes, he agrees that meat tastes just fine and he eats a lot, then tells me about this youtube channel of a guy with a beard travelling around the world on a vegan diet and if I make sure to only eat biological food.
I still don't get how he thought that was a good conversation to have with a stranger or what he was trying to tell me, just that despite my detector I wasn't the weirdest person around from one second to the next.

 

[clv]

This is the type of hat I wear

I know that it makes me look like a goofy,
But hay I swinging a Metal Detector on the beach, so I already look goofy to the people out there, but I stop caring how I looked to other people when I turned 23 (that's when I got married)!

 

[Indian Steve]

I like to stay about neck deep in the water, with sunscreen on my face, collared shirt, sunglasses, and a hat.

 

[frogmaster-riviera]

German coast: north sea or Baltic should be a problem for the sun.... rain protection is maybe more of an interest over there...

But concerning metal detection spots, Friesland should be very productive, a lot of over there since a verryyyy loooonnnngggg time.....