Irma Was No Good For Us Down Here

All of us look forward to tropical storms of some type to do some kind of magical erosion that will open up all the treasure that’s out there. I know that when tropical storm Fay came by in 2008 I was out there and had what I thought was a successful hunt being a newbie to wet sand hunting with my CZ-20. Based on my past experience, I was hoping for similar or even better results with Irma. I have been out for 3 hunts since Hurricane Irma passed. I have hunted my 3 main frequented beaches and all I can say is that conditions have been abysmal. Only on 1 beach, and in one specific dry sand dune area that had grasses and palm trees knocked out, uncovering some older stuff did, I think that Irma positively impacted hunting conditions for a detectorist. All 3 beaches had tons and tons of sand deposited into the water from the shore line out creating a white sea floor visible from above. The time that I hunted those areas yielded practically nothing and the bottom was extremely uneven on my hunts. The wet sand on one beach gained an almost endless slope into the beach that yielded almost no targets. At another, there was a bit of erosion, but it was minimal. These have been my observations and those of a couple of other SouthFla pirates on here that I have spoken with. I have also heard the same comments by a couple of other pirates that I’ve run into on Miami Beach. All in all, the consensus seems to be the same – that conditions are really bad and it’s going to take a while for some type of normalcy. Below is my last hunt Thursday, Sept. 28th. It was so bad that I stopped hunting after about 2½ hours and just headed home. I just might become a dry sand hunter again until things improve and who knows when that’ll be. What I think, and I’m hoping for, is that it’s going to take a while of consistent weather patterns to redistribute sand around and maybe then will some of the older stuff that was blown out will start to show up. At least that’s my hope!