Wheres the beach?

[bigscoop]

Where's the beach?

Weather is getting better here in Indiana, nice and sunny today but no endless miles of ocean beach anywhere in sight. To add to this pain I'm now stuck here for at least the next year, probably longer. Summer will be here soon and still no endless beach to search from dawn to dusk, no bikini clad beauties to examine through those dark shades to help pass the time. Indiana needs to uproot several counties and fill those voids with water and miles of sandy beach.

 

[Sandman]

I am stuck inland too now and find fresh water hunting at all the lakes is far more productive than the coasts beaches because swimmers are confined to smaller areas. Finds are closer together so I collect more per hunt. Sand isn't changing to cover up drops. I've hunted a couple beaches a day. Since its freshwater there is no salt to bother detectors and greater depth is reached. But there is a down side to some lakes that are closed during the summer and open after Labor Day like the photo.

 

[jeepGold]

just head west for coins and east for jewelry..

 

[Escape]

I can't even imagine not living near the ocean.

 

[ARC]

I am stuck inland too now and find fresh water hunting at all the lakes is far more productive than the coasts beaches because swimmers are confined to smaller areas. Finds are closer together so I collect more per hunt. Sand isn't changing to cover up drops. I've hunted a couple beaches a day. Since its freshwater there is no salt to bother detectors and greater depth is reached. But there is a down side to some lakes that are closed during the summer and open after Labor Day like the photo.
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Sandman please tell me that photo is a "club" detecting... heh.

 

[WaterWalker]

Pennsylvania has as few lakes were detectorist line up the morning after Labor Day...and all is hunted out in less than an hour...AND all finds must be turned into the ranger. LOVE the ocean. Why bother? I imagine the photo could be of such a day - not a club hunt.

 

[releventchair]

Go far North young man! Or N.W..
Indy has a few beaches, I,m not aware of which allow detecting where.
Bikini season is brief though.

The Best Beaches in Indiana | USA Today

 

[sponge]

Scoop your not missing nothing. Even the pulltabs a buried under tons of sand. Sanded and stranded.

sent from a sending device

 

[ARC]

Pennsylvania has as few lakes were detectorist line up the morning after Labor Day...and all is hunted out in less than an hour...AND all finds must be turned into the ranger. LOVE the ocean. Why bother? I imagine the photo could be of such a day - not a club hunt.

I have never "lined up" for anything other than to get into Walt Disney World... and a few Nightclubs years ago...
Hell I will not even wait in line for a restaurant... let alone to detect.

Arrrg that picture is like something I had a nightmare once about... it is like shuffling walk of the detecting dead.

PS> Nightmare -- I was detecting and had this great hit... when I dug I saw 100's of gold coins showing...
I panicked and looked up... there were ten other detector I did not know ... and people all around me... like "could see" close...
I acted like it was nothing/no big deal and acted like I put something in my pouch... and said "damn foil"...
I took my foot and covered it back up and moved off of it... but not far... and was watching around etc...
I waited for the others to kinda work away a bit more... and when the coast was clear I walked back over to spot...
BUT...When I tried to get it again... I could not find it...and was getting stressed... and they were walking over towards my "area" I was in... I was swinging and swinging....
Arrrrg Then I woke up sweating :P heh:P
20 or so years ago... had this dream after drinking Margaritas at the Quervo Gold Vollyball Championship.
Felt like I was sweating salt and lime juice.

 

[lookindown]

Weather is getting better here in Indiana, nice and sunny today but no endless miles of ocean beach anywhere in sight. To add to this pain I'm now stuck here for at least the next year, probably longer. Summer will be here soon and still no endless beach to search from dawn to dusk, no bikini clad beauties to examine through those dark shades to help pass the time. Indiana needs to uproot several counties and fill those voids with water and miles of sandy beach.

Its still here...bikinis and all.

 

[[AU:Magnet]]

Bikini season is brief though.

Gotta like this......

 

[[AU:Magnet]]

How does the Ranger know you have handed everything in? I couldn't hunt with all those guys around me, no way. Although with my hookah, I can go to armpit level and above and leave em all behind.

 

[jeepGold]

If you want the good stuff you gotta go where the "average" MD'er won't. The wave smashing you in the forehead area's

 

[Sandman]

This was taken after Labor Day and the worse of it is that I was in the middle. There were about same amount of hunters on the dry sand behind me.

 

[ARC]

"Sandman please tell me that photo is a "club" detecting... heh." <----- ?


sandman...
This is in .... hm.... Michigans Initials ? MI >?

Anyway... in Mich ?,,,, heh

 

[bigscoop]

I've got summer plans to be back up north this year, I'm just missing the smell of salt air and that hot sun on my back. My dark tan is long gone and now I look like a skinny white post again. So I just gotta switch modes, from seagulls to loons, from sprawling white sands and towering condo units to quaint little beaches and thick forest. Not really that bad of a tradeoff until January & February.

 

[Sandman]

Sandman please tell me that photo is a "club" detecting... heh.

Definitely not a club hunt. Some popular swim areas are closed to metal detecting from Memorial Day till Labor Day and the day after hundred's of hunters show up to reap the goodies. It doesn't help that there are concession stand near the water for change to be made and lost. Many hunters will come back for a few days or hunt another beach till all the bottom has been sifted. Things found of "value" have to be turned into a park employee, so nobody ever finds anything.