Kicked off the beach.

[knuckles]

Hello everyone today I had the awful experience of being told to remove my metal detector from the beach I was mding on. Ok heres what happened I was mding on a beach in Marin County called Rodeo beach. It is in the Marin Headlands Golden Gate National Recreation Area .

Basically a maintenance worker for the beach "warned" that I must put up my equipment and he said that "I was lucky it was him telling me and not the rangers because if it were them i would have had mu equip. confiscated". I didnt argue agressively but I asked him where was the sign posted at because I did not see it. He pointed over yonder and said over there. Plus he said the info was posted in the visitor center too. I said ok then I`ll have to go see it, then he took off. .I was looking for that sign too, all over the place. I got to the visitor center and it was cloesed on sat. So I took a pamphlet and saw the maintenance guy again I told him that the center was closed and I could nt find the sign he was telling me about, his answer was a stupid remark saying "It probably fell down"

I just walked away and went to the fire station there and asked if they knew any info about this. He called the rangers and said that they told him that it is prohibited to metal detect on the National Parks land

So I just went home to try and find somewhere else to go next. But it seems that I got my 1st taste of what I had been reading about in the forums..

I always thought beaches were ok. I dont know now. Anyway , thanks for letting me blow off steam here.

PS .. He was telling another on of the reasons they dont like us to md is because of the live ordanance in / under the ground. I dont know sounded like a story to me.

[Gregory]

Thats to bad, I thought that National parks were off limits to detecting thats why I never ask.

Theres plenty of other spots so keep your spirits high

[dougdann]

Parks and wildlife prtected areas and such are always off limits.

I have made offers to a few palces. Let me detect and I will donated 75% of my findings to their museum or gallery.
hasn't worked yet.
Note that I say "yet". I staying psitvie one place will say okay to the offer.


Doug

[knuckles]

Dood idea dougdann I hope it works for you.

[leslie(nova scotia)]

From the land of the Bluenose...national parks off limits here too. Universal by the sounds of it. Here the law states that no one can own below the high water mark and even this basic law is now challenged. Lord love a duck soon one won't have access to the ocean anywhere!

[hoser]

Yup, I read that also. Good thing you didn't lose your equipment. Thats ok, there's lots of other places to hunt. But it really don't make much sense to me. Not like we are gonna pull up in a backhoe or something. Dang, now what am I gonna do with all this unused dynamite.

[knuckles]

Yep your right we are just puppets being pushed this way and that but, I do now know my limitations that we cannot just md any where we want and I`ll try and obey the rules. But It sucks Though.

Thanks