Popped a few more cold and flu pills and I'm back in the car for Night 4 of the Challenge. I went back a beach I visited on Night 2...mainly because I had some luck in the last hour pulling coins out of the picnic area wood chips. I started off in the dry sand which proved to be interesting. Firstly, there have been very strong winds recently which has blown layers of sand from the beach. This is normally a good thing, allowing the metal detector to reach signals that would normally be sanded in. While hunting the sand, I came across a couple of 5 and 10 cent coins which we're just sitting on the surface. The wind had obviously exposed them. One would think this would turn out to be a lucrative hunt, but besides the exposed coins there was barely any other targets. I am wondering if most of the exposed coins had already been picked up by people at the beach?? Anyway, my first couple of hours in the dry sand
yielded me a few dollars in currency, and my first ring of the Challenge (a 925 Sterling Silver Ring). The rest of the night I spend searching over the picnic area looking for coins I missed the first time round. Total for the night - $41.85, plus a Silver Ring.. I think I have proved to myself that unless I really luck out, I am never going to find much more that $50 in modern currency per night. Week 2 of the Challenge I will be changing tactic, and hunting the water line for gold rings :)
Popped a few more cold and flu pills and I'm back in the car for Night 4 of the Challenge. I went back a beach I visited on Night 2...mainly because I had some luck in the last hour pulling coins out of the picnic area wood chips. I started off in the dry sand which proved to be interesting. Firstly, there have been very strong winds recently which has blown layers of sand from the beach. This is normally a good thing, allowing the metal detector to reach signals that would normally be sanded in. While hunting the sand, I came across a couple of 5 and 10 cent coins which we're just sitting on the surface. The wind had obviously exposed them. One would think this would turn out to be a lucrative hunt, but besides the exposed coins there was barely any other targets. I am wondering if most of the exposed coins had already been picked up by people at the beach?? Anyway, my first couple of hours in the dry sand 
yielded me a few dollars in currency, and my first ring of the Challenge (a 925 Sterling Silver Ring). The rest of the night I spend searching over the picnic area looking for coins I missed the first time round. Total for the night - $41.85, plus a Silver Ring.. I think I have proved to myself that unless I really luck out, I am never going to find much more that $50 in modern currency per night. Week 2 of the Challenge I will be changing tactic, and hunting the water line for gold rings :)
Way to go on the Silver Ring! Shake the flu and good luck on getting $50.00+ a day!
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