Bobbypins
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- Joined
- May 31, 2008
- Messages
- 503
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- Location
- Okinawa, Japan
- Detector(s) used
- Whatever gets the job done
- Primary Interest:
- Beach & Shallow Water Hunting
My son and I decided to head out to the honey hole tonight. Looking at the tide charts, I see that the low tide is at 3am and make a call to Jason to see if he wanted to tag along. Since he'll be leaving the country soon and won't be able to do any detecting for a couple of months, he opted to go.
We arrive a little past 1am and find Jason already there hunting. My son and I work our way into the water and navigate towards the back of the jellyfish net to start hunting. My hope is that Kendall (mys one) starts to get the hang on this detecting thing. He's still actively interested in it, even though he's not finding a load of cash... but I'm sure it's just going to take a little more practice. He's a trooper though, and I'm confident he'll get his due one of these days.
After being in the water a while, I notice some people gathering at the shoreline. Flashlights beaming our way clued me in that they wanted to talk to us, so i navigated my way to the shore to see what was going on. I guess 3 Americans detecting in a swimming area attracted more attention than we normally do on most nights. But after overcoming the language barrier with a game of charades and a short demonstration, I was back in the water heading back to the area I was working on.
I come across one of those 'iffy' singnals. You known the kind... broken, crackly, kinda solid, but definitely NOT something that is 100% good. Hell, I came to the beach at 1am to dig targets, and that's what I'm going to do.
After shaking the sand from the scoop, I see a nice small silver band. No complaints there, but it occured to me that this one came from DEEP down, and it appears that it was lost yesterday.... no corrosion or growth at all. Unfortunately, the band is too small for me to read anything, so it's going to have to wait until we get home.
Looking back at the shoreline, I see even MORE people gathering... and even more flashlights going. I decide at that point that on THIS particular night, it's not worth the headache to keep trying to detect. We're just attracting too much attention, and my hope is that on another night we won't have to worry about people traffic.
So we climb out of the water to find 2 different security guards from the hotel across the street asking the same questions as the first 2 did. Another game of charades, some broken english and demonstration of the workings on the Excal, and I think he too was satisfied. I informed him that there was a strong possibility that we would be back there the following night, so my hope is that we won't run into him since he'll automatically know who it is and what we're doing.
So here's the take for the short nights hunt:
1,071 Yen -- $13.90
.30 cents
and one small ring that turned out to be 3.5 grams of Pt 950 Made by Tiffany and Co.
Thanks for stopping by and taking a look. I hope your hunts are filled with great finds too
We arrive a little past 1am and find Jason already there hunting. My son and I work our way into the water and navigate towards the back of the jellyfish net to start hunting. My hope is that Kendall (mys one) starts to get the hang on this detecting thing. He's still actively interested in it, even though he's not finding a load of cash... but I'm sure it's just going to take a little more practice. He's a trooper though, and I'm confident he'll get his due one of these days.
After being in the water a while, I notice some people gathering at the shoreline. Flashlights beaming our way clued me in that they wanted to talk to us, so i navigated my way to the shore to see what was going on. I guess 3 Americans detecting in a swimming area attracted more attention than we normally do on most nights. But after overcoming the language barrier with a game of charades and a short demonstration, I was back in the water heading back to the area I was working on.
I come across one of those 'iffy' singnals. You known the kind... broken, crackly, kinda solid, but definitely NOT something that is 100% good. Hell, I came to the beach at 1am to dig targets, and that's what I'm going to do.
After shaking the sand from the scoop, I see a nice small silver band. No complaints there, but it occured to me that this one came from DEEP down, and it appears that it was lost yesterday.... no corrosion or growth at all. Unfortunately, the band is too small for me to read anything, so it's going to have to wait until we get home.
Looking back at the shoreline, I see even MORE people gathering... and even more flashlights going. I decide at that point that on THIS particular night, it's not worth the headache to keep trying to detect. We're just attracting too much attention, and my hope is that on another night we won't have to worry about people traffic.
So we climb out of the water to find 2 different security guards from the hotel across the street asking the same questions as the first 2 did. Another game of charades, some broken english and demonstration of the workings on the Excal, and I think he too was satisfied. I informed him that there was a strong possibility that we would be back there the following night, so my hope is that we won't run into him since he'll automatically know who it is and what we're doing.
So here's the take for the short nights hunt:
1,071 Yen -- $13.90
.30 cents
and one small ring that turned out to be 3.5 grams of Pt 950 Made by Tiffany and Co.
Thanks for stopping by and taking a look. I hope your hunts are filled with great finds too
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cool ring !!! sounds like people are still very much on the edge from all of the disaster's beee safe 
