Rough beach trip...

FarmerChick · Apr 4, 2013

wasn't meant to be.

2 days hunting Myrtle Beach State Park beach.

1.28 the first day with some trash.

2 cents the next day with more trash.

WOW. I found nothing. I walked VERY LONG without a hit. amazed me.

I gotta go to where people drop gold and diamond rings and more valuable stuff

but it was enjoyable! to be out with the detector!!

mamabear · Apr 4, 2013

been there, done that. & yer right at least you were at the beach enjoying it.

FarmerChick · Apr 5, 2013

LOL Mamabear
at least someone can share my misery on that trip

fingers crossed on my florida beach trip!!

lorraine · Apr 5, 2013

FarmerChick...I've had plenty of those kinds of hunts..sometimes I come home with $0.07!

Please don't give up....just keep trying different areas of the beach and the gold/ silver treasures will show up in your scoop.

I also love the exercise , fresh air, and meeting people who wander the beaches..be they detectorists or visitors.

Lorraine

FarmerChick · Apr 5, 2013

Hi Lorraine
no giving up here. detectorist for life

but geez, the metal detecting gods need to throw me a bone every now and then LOL

once bitten, not many can walk away from detecting. I sure can't !!

bigscoop · Apr 5, 2013

Florida! And just where might you be heading in Florida? Starting to get pretty sandy down here. :hello:

AC1955 · Apr 5, 2013

Know just what you're talking about. The couple of beaches I've hunted lately have been totally quiet. But just think, summer's around the corner....

HH,
Anita

OBN · Apr 5, 2013

It's been a tuff year in MB from what I have heard, much sanded in from the winter storms. How did your trip go at the State park camp site? I think it was you that asked about detecting one...

I gotta go to where people drop gold and diamond rings and more valuable stuff

I have given up on vacation trips to the beach, ..I'm pulling up stakes, selling the house and moving to the Mid Atlantic Deleware/Maryland Beach's....

once bitten, not many can walk away from detecting. I sure can't !!

So true...........

FarmerChick · Apr 6, 2013

Hey Big! hope all is well!!

heading to Fort Clinch in Fernandio Beach. (I think I spelled that right

)

9 days. I should find something right? LOL

it is a very heavily used campground so I think this beach should give up something great if luck is on my side!

FarmerChick · Apr 6, 2013

Hi Anita--you are so right. summer means the beaches will be loaded again and new finds are being dropped everyday by people

replenishing the haul hopefully

Hey OBN----that trip hasn't happened yet. that is a July trip to a state park in Virginia. the one where I can water detect only at the beach. But public beach I can detect sand. so I found a relatively close public beach in VA next to my campgound and I will definitely be hitting it.

You are moving to the beach? LUCKY YOU!! In fact I have mentioned a few times to hubby that I want to move but his dad just passed and he won't leave his Mom right now. Kinda got chained to this area right now but in the future when freedom hits, oh yea, we are moving also

goldnugget · Apr 10, 2013

Farmer Chick, I live in Charlotte,N.C. and will be camping Ft Clinch ,arriving May 6 th ,2013 and departing May 13,2013,I will be camping and also have 2 friend camping also. Let me know if this is your week. Thanks=goldnugget Myrtle Beach is tuff to find anything. I worked the wash at the campground and found coins each time

H-2 CHARLIE · Apr 10, 2013

You did better then me Sat. at Newport beach , in just over 2 hrs i got $1.47 and a $58 parking ticket by being 5 min late ... YES i was pissed on the way home ,guess just pay it and go on .

s1u2r3f4 · Apr 10, 2013

FarmerChick said:
Hi Lorraine
no giving up here. detectorist for life

but geez, the metal detecting gods need to throw me a bone every now and then LOL

once bitten, not many can walk away from detecting. I sure can't !!

No kidding!!! Feel your pain. Got one dime today. Getting really bummed. I want to go to Morocco :BangHead:

No, Really!

Terry Soloman · Apr 10, 2013

Just keep swinging! :icon_thumright:

s1u2r3f4 · Apr 10, 2013

Terry Soloman said:
Just keep swinging!

I Am!!!

tcornel · Apr 10, 2013

I feel your pain. I own 2 condos in Regency Towers up the beach about a half mile and spend about 2 months a year there. It is rare to look out the balcony at the beach for more than a half hour with seeing someone detecting. It does not matter if it is July, Sept or Jan. someone is always there.

The summer will bring more to find. Both condos have no openings from mid May to early Sept. Totally booked. Now if I could just figure out a way to spray Pam on everyone's ring fingers. :icon_thumright:

Captain PopTop · Apr 10, 2013

Dont feel bad im in the same boat, crusty pennies,nickels,chum change,poptops,pull tabs,titanium carbide ring , plated rings & kids ring, season is just begining, the tickets are out their we'll git em !!!

JimDon · Apr 10, 2013

I was at Hilton Head last week and the beach was absolutely clean. I got a few coins and one iPhone. Not a signal piece of jewelry. The cold rain kept people off the beach so I guess I will have to wait until the summer for them to start producing.

bigscoop · Apr 10, 2013

Three hour water hunt and I got one dime and one bobby pin today. :laughing7:

Oh, and I lost a floater and that other unidentified thing that kept falling trough the holes in my scoop. Oh, and a fish hook. :thumbsup:

s1u2r3f4 · Apr 10, 2013

Do we all have to rely on new drops

Is the old stuff just too deep until a storm takes away the sand? I'm starting to check out people's jewelry and wanting to ask them what beaches they frequent!! That's just weird :icon_queen: