One gold ring La Libertad, El Salvador

[JP]

I brought one of my Excaliburs down here almost 6 months ago and finally had a chance to get out there to hunt.  I had a long handled scoop made for me yesterday out of a hand scoop.  It worked perfectly. 

The hunt was more of an experimental hunt.  By 7:30 am the beach was full so we were out of there, also the waves were killing me with the tide coming in.  I hope to head back there next week during the week so that I'll have the beach to myself.

There are a lot of rocks in the water and many signals were impossible to recover.  I was only in the water for thirty minutes and couldn't take the punishment anymore.  The water would go from ankle deep to over your head in a period of 2 or 3 seconds.  Plus add that undertow and waves crashing all around, but it was fun.

A little boy told me that it's best to hit there about 6 am before the waves start getting bigger.  He said that sometimes when the water is smooth that they will walk there and find gold chains and rings that were recently dropped.

My take for 30 minutes of "work" was one penny and one nice 14k ring that was for a girl who turned 15.

By the way the Excal works excellently in volcanic black sand.

HH

 

[utah hunter]

Nice ring, and a ratio of 1 penny for every piece of gold is hard to beat. Are those amethyst or more pink? Has to be her birthstone...Ryan

 

[JP]

Thanks. I believe, but I might be wrong, that the pink stones are rose quartz. They may be synthetic pink stones or glass.

My first gold for the year

 

[FloridaBill]

great job has to be a lot more there

 

[COTTON]

Very nice Jud. As soon as i get my camera charged up i will send ya some pictures of my vacation finds.I go back to work Tuesday.Take care ...............Cotton P.s.Did you ever go back to the place that you were talking about down there?

 

[mumszie]

Very VERY nice. I TOLD YOU TO TAKE YOUR MACHINE WITH YOU! WTG!

 

[Bob S]

Nice Find WTG

 

[txkickergirl]

That is a really sweet quinceanera ring, poor girl.

 

[JP]

That is a really sweet quinceanera ring, poor girl.

I felt sorry for her too when I found it. I found a gold ring in Tampa back on October that had Daddy written on it. Another case of guilt, but why do they take them to the beach?

This is a custom made ring that the family made for the quinceanera. The beach that I found it at is mostly used by poor people so you can imagine that was a once in a life time gift for her.

I'm heading out tomorrow morning to one beach and on Sunday scuba and detecting at an island that fell in about 120 years ago into a lake it supposedly was visited in the past where people threw coins on it for religious reasons. The person taking me there told me that they have found silver and gold coins there not even using a metal detector. From what they told me I will be the first to use one there , of course there might not be anything there. If anything good is found I will post pics.

Thanks everybody for commenting, yes Mumszie thank you for encouraging me to bring the Excal down here.

 

[mcmurphi]

Great post....keep us informed to what happens there....take some pics!