What is the best clue to the area shown in this photo being a gold trap ?
Hard packed sand on the lower beach, helps to trap gold in place for beach hunters.
I saw two gold traps on a local thanksgiving day beach hunt, an eroded section of upper beach with a three foot cut and a hard packed shell area close to the waters edge.
I knew from experience that my best chance of finding gold was using an east west directional search pattern, from the base of the cut down to the hard packed sand next to the water.
The cut appeared to be a couple of days old and was not very productive, but the hard pack sand towards the waters edge held many deep targets.
Lead fishing weights were a good sign, and so were the encrusted "Greenies" in the area.
Green encrusted coins and lead, are often the best indicators to a beach hunter that gold is also trapped in place.
It was not long before an 18K gold bracelet came out of the area, followed by a 14K ear ring.
Luckily for me, there are more water hunters than beach hunters at a majority of the local beaches I like to search.
I class myself as a water hunter too, but I would never ignore gold traps on the lower beach caused by rough surf, the same rough surf that has caused water hunters to stay away from the beach.
I could not imagine ignoring the lower and upper beach, especially gold traps like the ones I saw on thanksgiving morning.
Hard packed sand and shells on the lower beach, are often the strata where heavy objects settle or get trapped after sinking past mushy sand during sanded in conditions.
When one area closes ( the water and water hunting) another area of the beach opens up, if you know what to look for and when to take advantage of it.
The answer to my question at the beginning of todays blog is my size 10 dive boot print.
Anytime you walk on a hard packed section of a recently "Sanded in" tourist beach and you barely leave a boot print, get ready to recover gold.
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