sodetraveler
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I recently returned from my latest bottle digging adventure in Hawaii 
My wife only gives me a 2 day pass, so I have exactly 48 hours between curb pick-up and curb drop-off at the airport to get my bottlin fix
I did manage to get in a bit of body surfing between all night digs - although the purpose was more for cleaning off the dirt than anything else
I landed Friday and raced to the curb where my brother was waiting with a car full of bottlin gear. We drove straight out to the North Shore of Oahu where we had our first dig planned. It was super hot and humid with no breeze and digging was really difficult without becoming overheated
It got cooler as the sun went down, but since we weren't finding anything good we decided to drive back over to the Honolulu side to try our luck at our back-up spot......
We dug all night and scored about 65 bottles that looked to be mostly from the 1890's era. We filled the hole as the sun was coming up and drove over to Sandy Beach for some body surfing clean-up. The next night we came back to the same spot, but didn't do as well.
Our big score was a couple of Marble Stopper Sodas. The first was a Tahiti Lemonade and the second was a Hollister & Co. - both Honolulu companies operating around the turn of the century. These are quite rare and valuable bottles to local Hawaii collectors because most were broken by children for the marbles. I actually found 3 broken Hollisters before I got the intact one!
Here are a few pictures from our dig......
My wife only gives me a 2 day pass, so I have exactly 48 hours between curb pick-up and curb drop-off at the airport to get my bottlin fix
I did manage to get in a bit of body surfing between all night digs - although the purpose was more for cleaning off the dirt than anything else
I landed Friday and raced to the curb where my brother was waiting with a car full of bottlin gear. We drove straight out to the North Shore of Oahu where we had our first dig planned. It was super hot and humid with no breeze and digging was really difficult without becoming overheated
It got cooler as the sun went down, but since we weren't finding anything good we decided to drive back over to the Honolulu side to try our luck at our back-up spot......
We dug all night and scored about 65 bottles that looked to be mostly from the 1890's era. We filled the hole as the sun was coming up and drove over to Sandy Beach for some body surfing clean-up. The next night we came back to the same spot, but didn't do as well.
Our big score was a couple of Marble Stopper Sodas. The first was a Tahiti Lemonade and the second was a Hollister & Co. - both Honolulu companies operating around the turn of the century. These are quite rare and valuable bottles to local Hawaii collectors because most were broken by children for the marbles. I actually found 3 broken Hollisters before I got the intact one!
Here are a few pictures from our dig......
jgas
