Searching during or after local beach closings

If traveling to search out of area beaches is not an option, a closed beach due to any event can really put a dent in your metal detecting plans. 
Sometimes beaches are closed to parking lot or beach walkway renovations, local environmental issues or to be rebuilt with tons of sand due to beach erosion problems.
What ever the reason for your local beaches being closed it can and often will lead to empty finds pouches for a while, so here are a few things a beach hunter can do to deal with beach closures. 
As I always say in beach treasure hunting books, searching a wide variety of beaches will help you to recover a wide variety of finds.
People who do not search the same beach every time they go metal detecting will not be effected by the closure of one or even two local beaches. 
Hopefully your local beach closing will force you to expand your horizons as a beach treasure hunter.
The closing of a tourist beach will certainly stem the flow of "Fresh drop" jewelry, but if you do not rely on putting your search coil over fresh drops at the same site every time you go beach hunting you wont be effected so much by a beach closing.
Not being the kind of beach hunter who only searches one specific area of the beach is an advantage when certain areas of the beach are closed.
For example, perhaps you can search in the water even if the beach is closed, perhaps the lower beach or water are off limits and you can search higher up on the beach.
These type of examples only work if you are a good all around beach hunter, not a one trick pony water hunter only searching in the water or a wet or dry sander only searching on the lower or upper beach. 
The word "Or" was used a lot in the last statement because or and either are two of my favorite words associated with beach hunting. 
It you can strive to do either this or that as a beach hunter you will do well and your wide variety of beach finds will show how you can deal with minor beach hunting inconveniences like beach closings.
You would be surprised how I have been dealing with my local beach closings during the pandemic, even more surprised by what I have managed to recover elsewhere because the beach closures forced me out of my comfort zone.
A beach closure should be the prefect motivation to expand your beach hunting horizons and hopefully discover finds in places you probably would never have tried if it wasn't for the blessing in disguise a beach closure can often be. 
When a beach is reopened perhaps you will have the problem of not being able to search it as often as you did because you discovered other areas or sites of interest during the closure. 
The point of todays blog entry is to open your eyes to the possibility of expanding your search areas and not being too reliant on one or two local beaches. 
Two things that should never hold a beach hunter back are sanded-in conditions and temporary beach closures, they are in my opinion just excuses for not thinking outside the beach hunting box.
I could be wrong, nah I just checked the finds cabinet Im right!