Hitting the beach or the keyboard

Its that time of the year when beach hunters looks back at finds from the previous year and set goals or expectations for the new year.
Beach hunters who post finds on metal detecting forums and blogs usually show year end totals and first finds of the new year, Im not into metal detecting forums but I will browse this time of the year to see what people in areas I search have recovered.
This is a perfect lead into one of todays basic beach hunting principles, the less time you spend taking and downloading photos/videos and posting on metal detecting forums and social media sites the more chance you have of going to the beach and actually finding something good using your metal detector.
You may have noticed I posted fewer blogs last year, the reason was because I spent so much time using my metal detector instead of a keyboard.
I also cut back on making and posting youtube videos as it was too time consuming for me, I found myself spending a lot of time editing, posting and replying to comments.
I could have been at the beach finding gold in the time I spent going over the previous hunt, also it was really tough editing out shots of the background that gave away some of my favorite beach and water hunting sites.
Post finds on metal detecting forums, reply to comments and you will see how easy it is to miss the big beach hunting picture that you only find stuff when you are at the beach.
Every type of metal detector, search coil and target ID numbers question takes time to respond to if you like posting your metal detecting finds online.
The same applies to cranky old bloggers and forum members posting smack about me, I love it as every sentence wasted on me at the keyboard is time they could have spent metal detecting and finding stuff at the beach.
Talking about wasted time and beach hunting opportunities, don't get caught out waiting for second hand beach reports a round about way of waiting for good beach hunting conditions.
Good beach hunting window of opportunities are often only open one or two tide cycles, reading about them probably means you already missed the opportunity.
Surf projections and tide tables will almost inevitably cause you to miss valuable finds, in my opinion it is what it is when you get to the beach to search with your metal detector.
Wait for low tide or higher surf to erode beaches and someone like me who does not follow outdated beach hunting forum or blogger advice will have beaten you to what you hope to find.
In my opinion the best use of a keyboard for a beach or water hunter is to research new areas to search because the next best thing to metal detecting is finding new places to metal detect.