Monday, December 4, 2017

Strippers at the beach, warning with topless photo!

Some of my favorite strippers at the beach were called Frances, Katrina and Sandy, hurricanes that stripped sand from beaches helping me to detect a lot of good stuff.
When rough surf from fierce coastal storms strip sand off the beach, you have a golden opportunity to find something good assuming you know how to search an eroded beach.
Two often overlooked areas on eroded beaches are the vertical face of the cut and mid beach, areas I have recovered some pretty amazing finds at this year.
Most beach hunters when searching eroded beaches, are into searching the base of the cut at the back of the beach, then following the cut a long ways down the beach. 
I do search along the base of the cut, but I also search the face of the cut and drop down to mid beach if the tide will allow it. 
When I know I am not the first person to have searched an eroded beach, or some time has passed since beach erosion took place I tend to head directly to the mid beach area, especially if I see lower spots mid beach.
Like many other things to do with beach metal detecting, there is a logical reason why the mid beach area tends to be the most productive area after a damaging coastal storm.
Following high tides rarely make it back up to the back of the beach, so mid beach becomes the new high tide zone, logically any good targets flushed out of the back of the beach or washed onto the beach  will end up being deposited beach in the new high tide zone.
Another reason mid beach is often ignored is because people wrongly assume once the base of the cut has been searched the erosion has been searched out. 
Nothing could be further from the truth, eroded beaches can often be productive for many days, weeks or even months after erosion first took place. 
Look at an eroded beach like a push penny arcade game, try putting your search coil closest to the line with the most targets. 






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