Long time coming...

6 months into 2013 and no 18K to show for it so thought I needed a little more motivation so said to myself no more posting till I've got some 18K, sorry guys just took a little longer than I thought and being real busy at work didn't help.

Talk about having a monkey on my back, was scoring everything but 18K 8K, 10K, 12K, 14K and even plat most of them looking a little worse for wear some broken or bent and found in nasty super trashy areas I'd been avoiding till now but damed if I could find that bright shiny buttery looking 18K stuff. At one time I couldn't get anything but 18K but now, man it's getting hard to find.

A few weeks ago had the worst water hunt ever, hunted for 8 hours to come home with only 3 coins, wish I could say the beach was sanded in but far from it I was hitting rocks at around a scoop down in the prime area.
Camped the night on the beach so had sometime to take a few pics before heading home in the morning.
I wasn't looking where I was going while walking along the beach in bare feet and stood on a snake of all things and crikey!!! the little thing bit me not what I had on the bucket list but cool anyway I just won't mention the size of it when re-telling the story Has a triangular shaped head of a viper but the color is wrong for the type of viper we get in Japan very rare to find them on the beach anyway. Could change color with age not sure or could be a non poisonous snake. Looking back, it wasn't a smart idea to try and handle it even a small one without knowing for sure what it is but it didn't seem too aggressive but I guess that's what all snake bite victims say before getting bit

First video ever posted and may be the last, but to anyone who hunts this beach good luck you'll need it or well done, you've already got it all

http://youtu.be/t_AULif9lvk

Home away from home




This cormorant just walked up to me wanting food could have escaped from a fisherman they still use them for fishing at night off boats but it's mainly a tourist thing now.



Funny things you see when the hunting sucks
The same cormorant taking a nap with it's head folded back and tucked under its wing.





In the year of the snake right now so took seeing a snake as a good sign that things had to get a whole lot better

And they did, a few days ago took the Excal out to try OBN's GreyGhost mod in the water was going to try them out in some deep water but didn't get any deeper than neck deep after finding a stretch of beach I'd had my eye on for 3 years had finally opened up and in one area I was digging down to the clay bottom.
Still a hell of a lot of pull tabs and other light junk floating around and beginning to think yet another day that the 18K stuff had alluded me when I dug this iffy low tone and out popped a gold ring, but only trouble it looked too good, hard to tell the weight of rings with gloves on, thought it had to be junk till I saw Cartier 750 stamped on it and yeah baby finally 18K!!! and after an hour and a half of feverish digging got another pull tab signal and was surprised to see another shiny gold object in the scoop no way!!! another 18K ring this time with a little bling!!!
And not a bad haul of clad and silver to go with it too. Any heavy metal day is great but a multi 18K day is pure heaven in my book

Total 5.8g 18K, 8 silver rings and 98 coins in 6 hours.

The rings after a polish up.





Junk but that Breeders cup badge might be worth something in a few years since they are redeveloping the Hollywood track soon.



Thanks to the guys who sent me messages to see if things were ok, much appreciated.

Thanks for viewing

HH & GL
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