For the past four summers my family and I have vacationed at the beach in New Hampshire. It never felt like one week was enough so this year we went for it and took a two week vacation there. It was hands down the best two weeks of my life. I will say that a two week vacation is far, far better than the sum of two one week vacations.
As always, I detected myself silly at the beach. I took the Sov GT and hit the beach every morning but one at about 5am. For many hunts my father joined me using his Etrac. I saw many fantastic sunrises and made some spectacular finds. I could write quite a bit about it but I guess I will let the pictures speak for themselves.
There were other detectorists out every time... sometimes I counted as many as a dozen. The wet sand was almost completely void of signals... even junk was scarce. I got lucky one morning though and it gave up two gold rings. The beach seemed to have a different shape or profile than in years past so I'm guessing the sand had moved around or something. Regardless the beach is a beautiful and inspiring place to detect... the sights and sounds alone are worth a trip.
I wound up with about 550 coins worth a little over $50. Among those were a well tarnished Merc, a silver Rosie, and two older nickels. The Rosie and one of the nickels were recent drops I would guess. The Merc is amusing to me as it's my third from this beach and a reminder that even 10 detecorists every day all summer can not hunt a place out.
I eyeballed a nice stainless steel necklace... it just nulled on the Sov. I also found a titanium spinner ring. Neither is valuable but they were both firsts and cool to find. The real keepers were a silver necklace and pendant, a silver crucifix, a silver ring, and three 14k rings - two of which are a decent size. I'm actually looking forward to getting into work tomorrow to weigh them. My goal was one gold ring so to find three was spectacular, and really gives a boost to my find totals for the year!
So that's my story... I'm already looking forward to next year. Happy hunting!
NOTE: The two items in the foreign coins pic are examples of the sort of targets that would make me nuts... they sound like deep targets and fall right through the scoop.
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Originally Posted by aloldstuff link=topic=11198.msg122115#msg122115 date=1346699666
Just one more Beep!
was just there on the 23rd and 24th of August and was doing the same thing. you did great on that beach Z despite of all the detecting presure it sees , at one time there i saw almost 2 dozen beach combers and it was strange to see so many people at that time on the beach all for a few moments freeze to watch the sunrise. we always go to Hampton about that time hopefully we can get a few forum members together to hunt it together. congrats on the successful beach time Z.
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Your clad count was enough for a nice dinner! 
Congratulations on all the silver, gold and big clad count. 