Forgot My Wetsuit Today - Had to Settle for the Wet Sand

[bdahunter]

I got a call this afternoon just before I was going out to catch the low tide with a nice gale blowing, emergency meeting in town! 'There goes my hunt' I thought to myself. I had all of my gear by the front door so I quickly piled it in to the back of my jeep with the idea of trying to salvage the hunt after the meeting.
By the time I cleared the meeting it was running late for the low tide but I headed over to Warwick Long Bay anyway but there was a sign there indicating the beach was closed - Bermuda Regiment Firing Practice. All the beaches on my way home were closed for firing practice except for Horseshoe Bay, my favorite so I wheeled in and went to grab my gear. All my gear was in the back of the jeep except for my wetsuit which I had forgotten in the rush to get to the meeting - Great! Undeterred I put on my Bogs and rolled up my jeans, grabbed the rest of my gear and headed for the beach which was deserted due to the inclement weather. The rain had tailed off to isolated showers but the tourists had obviously made other plans so there was nobody to get in the way of my hunt. I worked the wet sand at the main beach but it was deathly quiet, even quieter when you run in silent threshold. The booming of the artillery pieces in the background and the wind whistling around the headphones didn't help so after half an hour of absolutely nothing I headed to the swimming area at the far end of the beach. There were lots of targets here in the wet sand and I got down to digging. Most of the targets were faint signals and I had my work cut out for me, digging targets between 12" and 18" deep, some of these were quite small. I pulled a part of a gold plated ear ring and an ear ring backing at 6 and 8 inches respectively. (the Excal will find small tickets but you have to go slow and then force the signal to identify and decide whether or not to dig) I pulled a 1961 Silver U.S. Quarter out of the wet sand at 16", I measured it using my coil as a measure as shown in the pic below. A Bermudian Dollar came up from 18 inches down and a Matchbox toy Combine came up from over 20" down.
Total coinage came to $2.12 including the silver quarter which isn't bad for an hour and a half hunt in the wet sand. As I was leaving a beautiful rainbow came out and for a while it was a double rainbow, I'll take this as a sign of good things to come on my next hunt when I'll remember to bring my wetsuit.

[Dylan]

Great finds on your hunt bdahunter! Good luck next time!

[JCWhite]

Looks like you made the best of it. JC

[EBCIII]

Congrats on the silver! That ole combine is cool also, Beale.

[Buster]

BDA, that's some good finds...and some deep digging, Congrats...Buster/.....

[bdahunter]

At least I got some practice working the wet sand and was able to experiment with some of my settings on the Excal, not a total loss. Thank goodness for a little silver to save the hunt, it was looking pretty grim at the beginning.

Cheers,

BDA

[EPC Guy]

Silver makes me smile! Congrats, BDA!

[Lt1stone]

Nice deep finds!!

[HaveFaith]

Nice finds, great silver. Congrats and HH!

~HaveFaith~

['E']

Boy you had to work for those finds, always nice finding silver, WTG!