Tag: dirt fishing

Decompression ~ 01-02-2017

After an epically stressful few days at work, i headed out to my local beach for a bit of time to process everything that had been going on.  Nothing like a cool evening to help decompress and blow away the stress.  Whist i didn’t find all that much at all, it was just good to be out and thinking about not a lot, just waiting for those beeps and the thrill of the dig.

I combined this post with the weekend of the 4/2/2017 too, as i only really found spendables, i dropped them all on to the “pending shelf” when i got home and can’t recall which coins i found when.

The only exception was a Cat digger, which i definitely found on the weekend, but left at the beach for a kid to enjoy.  My boys have way too many toys that they don’t play with as it is!  It was also kind of large and i didn’t fancy filling my pouch with it

I ended up with $19.45, which for a few hours of digging on the beach isn’t too bad.  It was definitely worth the time, just for the stress relief if nothing else.  This was made up with $2 x 10, $8 x 1, $0.50 x 1, $0.20 x 3, $0.10 x 3 and $0.05 x 1.  I also picked up 3 fishing weights, a car key and a Volcom tag.

Evening beach hunt ~ 28-12-2016

Decided to head out after work for a few hours to my local beach last night.  It has been packed over the festive period and I thought there should be some goodies having been left behind.  It was very warm, so it was nice to be by the ocean with a nice breeze coming in.

The hunt started well picking up $1.50 in a spill on the entry way.  I worked my way around the soft sand checking the other entrances.  Not much doing, picked up a further $3.20

Quite a few people came over and asked some questions.  There is a lot of foreign people on this beach for some reason they all ask whether i need a license or such, or if i’m employed by the government?!?  I even got asked one time if i was security looking for bombs…  the mind boggles as the places people have come from that makes them think such things.  I guess the camo shirt and shorts doesn’t help 🙂

The beach was fairly empty when i got there about 6pm, but started to fill up again for sunset, so I wasn’t really able to work the towel line.  High tide was late morning so i wasn’t able to hit that, and the low tide wasn’t that low either.

As it got dark I headed back to the foreshore, but has left it to late and it was getting too dark to see.  I picked up another 70c on the foreshore and called it quits about 8:45pm.

I’ll probably get back down there after the new year when I have a bit more time and hopefully it’s not as busy