Digsalot
Forum Supporter
Planning to detect Cocoa Beach? I'd put it off for a couple of year's.
Well, this past Thursday the wife and I arrived at Jetty Park Camp Ground (Port Canaveral) to spend a few day's detecting and celebrate a family members birthday.
After we got the RV set up, low tide was coming up so we got our gear and walked to the beach with thoughts of gold dancing around in our scoops.
After about 3 hours of hearing nothing but threshold and testing the coil with my scoop, I told the wife that the Jetty must have caused sand to move in and we need to try further south the next day.
Next Day- Weather not to good, so the wife drops me 1/2 mile South of the Cocoa Beach Pier, the weather never stops me, and she goes shopping. I wave goodbye with this life is good smile on my face, walk over the boardwalk to the beach to see all this Purdy white sand along with this giant pipe coming out of the ocean. I see the other end of this pipe 600 yards off shore (that's where they hook up to the sand dredge) I then say to myself, NOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
I walked north to the other side of the pier and found about a 1/4 mile section that they hadn't covered up yet. Found a few clad, a couple fishing weights and the usual junk. At the end of that 1/4 mile was a pile of bulldozers, excavators and another pipe coming out of the ocean.
They are replenishing the beach from Jetty park to Patrick AFB. The Fed's ( you and I) are paying over 30 Million for this project. Hurricane Sandy relief
I feel for you guy's that live and detect at Cocoa and if your planning a trip there to detect I'd change plans.
Just a little heads up for those that didn't know.
HH Ben
Well, this past Thursday the wife and I arrived at Jetty Park Camp Ground (Port Canaveral) to spend a few day's detecting and celebrate a family members birthday.
After we got the RV set up, low tide was coming up so we got our gear and walked to the beach with thoughts of gold dancing around in our scoops.
After about 3 hours of hearing nothing but threshold and testing the coil with my scoop, I told the wife that the Jetty must have caused sand to move in and we need to try further south the next day.
Next Day- Weather not to good, so the wife drops me 1/2 mile South of the Cocoa Beach Pier, the weather never stops me, and she goes shopping. I wave goodbye with this life is good smile on my face, walk over the boardwalk to the beach to see all this Purdy white sand along with this giant pipe coming out of the ocean. I see the other end of this pipe 600 yards off shore (that's where they hook up to the sand dredge) I then say to myself, NOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
I walked north to the other side of the pier and found about a 1/4 mile section that they hadn't covered up yet. Found a few clad, a couple fishing weights and the usual junk. At the end of that 1/4 mile was a pile of bulldozers, excavators and another pipe coming out of the ocean.
They are replenishing the beach from Jetty park to Patrick AFB. The Fed's ( you and I) are paying over 30 Million for this project. Hurricane Sandy relief
I feel for you guy's that live and detect at Cocoa and if your planning a trip there to detect I'd change plans.
Just a little heads up for those that didn't know.
HH Ben