Going into the Memorial Day Weekend I had planned on either getting a hunt in today or on Monday, I opted for today. This is our famed “Urban Beach Weekend” on Miami Beach and I was going to avoid that like the plague! Plus it has been extremely windy leading to unworkable surf conditions there for me. I opted to take Noxy out and have a wet sand hunt and possibly a bit in the water if conditions allowed. I went to a beach that I had just gone 2 weeks ago. I was hoping that our recent windy conditions may have done some movement that I could take advantage of. When I get to the beach before sunrise the entire wet sand was covered in a about a foot of seaweed! I was upset but decided I was going to work the dry sand until I paid of the toll money it took me to get there. The coins and targets were few and after about an hour I decided to approach the water and work some clear strips of wet sand.
The targets started coming in a relatively short strip that I worked. In the 1st pass of that strip came the bracelet, that as I cleaned, I started to think it may be 10K. Eventually I was able to read “Alpaca” and somewhere in the recesses of my memory I remembered a type of silver called “Alpaca”. (I would later confirm that when I Googled it when I got back to my truck). I did a second pass of the area and kept getting targets – especially some nice nickels. I then headed off to a ritzy hotel that I like to get to but the conditions weren’t the same so I worked my way back and did a 3rd pass of the area. It was then that one of the targets did a jumpy 10-12 signal and as I scooped it up and plopped the pile of sand on the beach and a wave came through exposing the beautiful outline of a white ring!
I knew that I had scored! I had originally thought “plat” but when I got to the car I read 14K with my glasses - in addition to a date. The blackened silver ring came a short while after. By this time, the tide was coming in so after 3 hours I head home victorious! Funny how I really thought I had a better chance at finding gold the last time I hunted that beach than I did today, it just goes to show.
Thanks to all that have sacrificed for us...
The targets started coming in a relatively short strip that I worked. In the 1st pass of that strip came the bracelet, that as I cleaned, I started to think it may be 10K. Eventually I was able to read “Alpaca” and somewhere in the recesses of my memory I remembered a type of silver called “Alpaca”. (I would later confirm that when I Googled it when I got back to my truck). I did a second pass of the area and kept getting targets – especially some nice nickels. I then headed off to a ritzy hotel that I like to get to but the conditions weren’t the same so I worked my way back and did a 3rd pass of the area. It was then that one of the targets did a jumpy 10-12 signal and as I scooped it up and plopped the pile of sand on the beach and a wave came through exposing the beautiful outline of a white ring!
I knew that I had scored! I had originally thought “plat” but when I got to the car I read 14K with my glasses - in addition to a date. The blackened silver ring came a short while after. By this time, the tide was coming in so after 3 hours I head home victorious! Funny how I really thought I had a better chance at finding gold the last time I hunted that beach than I did today, it just goes to show. Thanks to all that have sacrificed for us...
(1928 National)
I will never get into recording hunts so I'm pretty sure it'll never get used by me. Going to sell it to a colleague at work.
, i can't blame you, i won't, it most likely would draw attention to your hunting ground's , any way , Felix wish you the best in 2019 , happy hunting, nice find's , Earl
