7/21/17 Report - Hurricane Season and Seasonal Beach Changes. Intuition and Data.

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.

Beach detecting conditions haven't been much good for a long time.  I can't even remember the last itime I issued a beach detecting conditions rating of three of more.  It has been a while.   I'm pretty sure that it has been more than a year, and maybe two or more since I issued a "4" rating.  This summer has been VERY slow if you are talking about fining old shipwreck items on the beach.  We've had a very small surf for months now.

We all know about Nor'easters.  I've talked about how they hit the beach and provide access to old items.  Lately we've had mostly southeast winds that bring hot weather and a small beach-building surf.  Things will change - sometime.

We are now well into hurricane season and everybody is waiting for a beach ripping storm.  Some seem to think that the early formation of storms like Don might indicate an active hurricane season.   I just read one such article.

"We’ve now had two tropical storms form in the tropical Atlantic before Aug. 1, Bret and Don," said meteorologist Bob Henson of Weather Underground. "This early season low-latitude activity is likely a harbinger of a more active than usual Atlantic hurricane season..."

Here is the link for more about that.

http://blog.spiritdaily.com/news-links/early-storms-a-harbinger

You might find this older article helpful.  It gives some general basics you might want to review.  Here are a couple paragraphs from that article.

Now, let your imagination return you to that same beach in winter. Your beloved berm is gone, pulled out to sea by regular storms. If it is a particularly vicious winter, the waves might have chipped the dune face into a scarp. This is seasonal erosion, and not usually a big deal, because summer comes along, the storms abate, and wind patterns restore the berm. And so it's not so much erosion as it is a seasonal fluctuation, in which hurricanes play their own role. "Hurricane passage with high waves and surges will cause dune erosion, but a lot is temporary," says Rogers.

Not always. Big storms like Matthew can pull sand into deep water. So deep, that the normal waves and tides that come after the hurricane won't be strong enough to drag the stuff back up onto the beach. But, because shore erosion is a long game, scientists won't know where (or whether) Matthew hastened long term erosion. More obvious are the effects on low shorelines, where Matthew could push sand inland, past the beach, into coastal shrubbery, marshlands, or communities...

Here is the link if you want to read more of that one.

https://www.wired.com/2016/10/hurricane-matthew-aint-helping-floridas-beach-erosion/

The best way to increase your number and quality of finds is to increase the amount of time you spend hunting.  There are other ways.  Skill is important factor, but you still have to be out.  When you are out there a lot, you have a better chance of finding the better spots and running into one of those spots when it is producing, even when they are few and far between.

A lot of people blame their detector when they aren't finding much.  That can be a problem, but it usually isn't the problem - assuming that it is working fairly well and you know how to use it to some extent.

There are times when some beaches simply aren't producing.  When that happens you might be better off trying something else.  Don't get stuck in habits that limit you.  You might need to travel a little farther or try a new different type of hunting.  It is too easy to get in the habit of hunting the same spots all the time.  It is best to have a good variety of spots that you know very well.  And continue to explore new spots.

Some spots will produce on and off over a number of years and then quit.  I keep those cataloged in my mind and wait for them to start producing again.  Some of those spots are seasonal, but some haven't produced for a few years.

Some detectorists switch from hunting old shipwreck items to hunting modern items when conditions are poor.  Those two types of hunting can be very different.  You can find a lot of modern items in the dry sand, but when you hunt the dry sand you are mostly looking for items that have been recently dropped, so you are looking for areas where a lot of people have recently congregated and been involved in the types of activities that result in losing items.  When it comes to hunting in the water for new items, that is more similar to hunting old shipwreck items.  It is more about how the sand is moving.

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I recently did a poll on intuition that showed that most treasure hunters rely on intuition to some extent.  Intuition is viewed by some as the natural result of observation and experience culminating in good judgment, for others it is viewed as something coming from a more magical or mystical source - something more like ESP.

If you are one of the few that feels that intuition is not reasonable or incompatible with a scientific approach, here are a few quotes form Albert Einstein.

The only really valuable thing is intuition. I believe in intuition and inspiration; at times I feel certain I am right while not knowing the reason. The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery.  There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, and the solution comes to you and you don’t know how or why.

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.

When you look out over a beach, there is order.  The wind, waves and gravity all work in harmony, distributing things according to their ways.  From experience you might grasp the prevailing order at first glance.

One more quote on intuition I want to add.  This one from John Naisbitt, author of books on the future and megatrends.

Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.

Some might think that data replaces or pushes aside the need for intuition, but in this view, vast amounts of data makes intuition all the more valuable.

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There are no storms brewing in the Atlantic or Gulf right now.

The surf is still small but the tides are big.  We are having some nice high and low tides.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net

7/9/17 Report - 2011 Law Concerning Ownership of Artifacts and Space Exploration Artifacts. Blog Poll Conclusions.

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.

The Cape Canaveral area, being the site of so much history, including early historic sites and a treasure wreck or two, provides another class of artifacts.  I'm talking about space exploration artifacts.

Space exploration artifacts occasionally show up on the Treasure Coast, most commonly including the relatively common melted bits of titanium, which I've discussed in the past, including instructions for identifying titanium. Occasionally more interesting items show up.

The recent Cooper's Treasure TV programs suggested another type of connection between space exploration and treasure hunting.  This blog's posts concerning the questionable trustworthiness of that show received a lot of attention.

On July 20th, Sotheby's will hold their Space Exploration auction, which among a long list of artifacts, includes the flown flight plan from the Apollo 13 mission.  That flight, which encountered serious problems and could have ended very badly, was the subject of a movie.

As I've said before, you can not separate politics from treasure hunting.  In 2012 President Obama signed a law concerning the ownership of space exploration artifacts.  (I won't get into the Odyssey Marine issue again, in which the courts ruled to give tons of silver recovered by Odyssey Marine to Spain, reportedly as part of a deal to obtain a valuable painting for a U. S. citizen.)  Here is how the Sothebys site describes that law concerning ownership of space exploration artifacts and how that law relates to the flight plan.

Here is the link for more information related to the flight plan and various incidents that occurred during the mission.

http://www.sothebys.com/en/news-video/blogs/all-blogs/sotheby-s-at-large/2017/06/houston-problem-here-flown-apollo-13-flight-plan.html?cmp=email_N09759___selects_space_hero3_30-jun-2017

You might also want to browse the auction lots.  I found them interesting.

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The most recent blog poll has concluded and the results are in.

As you can see from the bar chart below, the respondents generally go more by analysis and observation than intuition. That isn't surprising considering the amount of time I spend on analysis of beach conditions and other things.  Only one of the 45 respondents said that they went almost exclusively by intuition and hunches.

On the other end of the spectrum, 4 respondents said they rely almost exclusively on analysis.

The vast majority of those that responded, appear to use some mixture of analysis and intuition.  Overall the results were definitely skewed in the direction of analysis and observation over intuition.

Here are the results expressed in a bar chart.  I reordered the categories from how they were ordered when the poll was presented, and also shortened the category labels.  The numbers in the chart are percentages.

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Sunday I watched a series of TV programs on the Dare Stones and the Lost Roanoke colony.  Pretty good series.

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I've been working on another topic for a few days, but it just won't seem to come together.

There is no tropical weather in the Atlantic or Gulf right now.  No significant changes in beach conditions are expected real soon either.  There will be a little bump in the surf around Thursday, but not much.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net

7/7/17 Report - Tropical Depression Four. Intuitive Detecting. Fall Treasure Auction. Metal Detecting Ergonomics.

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.

Predicted Track For Tropical Depression Four.
Source: nhc.noaa.gov

Tropical Depression Four is still on the same track as of early Friday morning.

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Back a few days ago I asked readers about experiences of intutition.  Here is an example sent to me by Larry.

There was a soccer-sized field in a park in which, over the course of time, I pulled 7 gold rings. Once I got past #4, it became harder each time to believe there could be another one in there, but then eventually I'd get over my skepticism, and start hitting it again. After #6, the drag from my skeptical side just wouldn't let me go back to that field for many months. 

One afternoon, I was feeling oddly enthusiastic and also had the gold fever bad. I wanted to hit that field again, but couldn't imagine how another ring could be hidden in there after all the hours I'd spent hunting it, not to mention the 6 gold rings that were now missing from it. 

So, I brought up the field on google earth, laid the point of my index finger over the screen, closed my eyes, disconnected my mind from my hand,  

It required me to go into a meditative state, I guess, and I must have gotten there, because after some time, I returned to a sense of my body, and my finger was fixed on one spot of that field. That is where the gold would be. 

Without any doubt in my mind, I drove there, walked out into the field. I looked out, and fixed the spot where I believed my finger had rested. I checked one signal on my walk over to the spot, it was a tab. When I got to the spot I'd fixed with my eye, I stopped and swept the coil a couple of times, got a signal. I dug it, and it was a gold wedding band, with several Cartier style bisected circles engraved around the band. It was not a Cartier, however it was 14k gold. That was the 7th and last gold ring I pulled from that field, or any field. Since then, I've found all my gold at the beach.

Larry

Thanks for sharing Larry.

Larry's example also supports another thing I talk about: not giving up on a location too soon.  There is often more there than you might think, and it can take multiple hunts to get it all.

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You can now book a room or consign to the next Sedwick treasure auction, which will be held in Orlando in November.  Here are the details.

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If you metal detect heavily for many years, things will eventually begin to catch up with you.  Even things that are done for health and fitness reasons can cause problems in the long run.  Runners often develop knee problems, for example.  And bench pressing can cause shoulder problems.

When you are young and fit, it might be hard to imagine, but long term repetitive actions can cause parts of the body to wear out.  How many times have you swung that coil back and forth? I have no guess, but over the years it might be close to millions.  Certainly that can cause strain on various parts of the body such as the shoulder or back.  Digging is another thing you will do many times.  Try to do it all as ergonomically as possible.  You might not think it is any big deal now, but it can catch up to you in the long run.

Ergonomics is the science concerned with designing and arranging things so that they are used efficiently and safely. Ergonomics might also be called biotechnology, human engineering or human factors.

I once developed plantar fasciitis, I think from vigorously walking barefoot in the sand so much. That was easy to treat.  There are stretching exercises that seemed to do the job for me.  Good footwear can help too.

For detecting long without getting too tired, try to maintain good posture.  Adjust your rod assembly carefully to the right length so that you can maintain good posture while you detect.  And inch or two on the rod assembly can make a big difference.

Everyone knows that listening to a lot of loud music can cause hearing loss.  I'm also convinced that listening to a constant threshold tone for hours and years on end can cause hearing loss in the frequency range of the threshold tone.  Don't run the threshold any louder than necessary.  I also think that a variable tone is better than a single frequency.

And don't underestimate the effects of the sun, which can cause skin damage and serious cancers.  Don't forget the sun block.  I know of metal detectorists that have had very serious skin problems in the later years.

Ok, that's enough from grandma.

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The surf will remain small this week.  The surf predictions are for about a one foot increase in the surf next week.  That isn't much change.

Thanks for your poll responses.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net

7/2/17 Report - The Intuitive Treasure Hunter.

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.

Odd Finger Ring Find.

This is an odd looking ring.  It is gold plated.  The plating doesn't cover those bumps.  Ever seen anything like that?

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Yesterday I mentioned the important thing your detector won't tell you - where to put the coil.  Bill Popp, a long-time contributor to this blog, who, among other things provided detailed instructions for cleaning silver coins and artifacts with Muriatic acid, sent me the following message.

I've been beach and water detecting since 1985 and at some point realized that intuition may also play a role in detecting. I prefer the beach after most people are gone and I get quite relaxed just swinging and listening. On numerous, and fairly regular occasions, I get the "feeling" I need to go "over here" or "over there" and quite often find a target. It might be a pull tab; it might be a ring. I found my second largest gold chain in just that way. I've learned to pay attention to that "pull". I'm sure I'm not the only one that happens too.

Thanks Bill.  

Bill is not alone.  Many treasure hunters get hunches or feelings.  Some people pay more attention to them than others.

Years ago I conducted a poll years on a similar but different kind of thing - dowsing.

I reported the following poll results.

Of those that did have an opinion about it's effectiveness, about the same number believed that it was very or a little bit effective as the number of respondents who believed it was not effective.

Dowsing appears to be an area where the public has no clear consensus. Close to half claim they don't know, and of the remaining group, there is a nearly equal split between those that believe that it has some value and those who believe it does not work.

I would say that the division is in part due to the fact that a lot of people have little or no direct experience with it.

Nearly one out of five believe that dowsing is highly accurate and effective under some circumstances. That is a pretty good number. 

Intuition, ESP and other things like that are hard to prove. There are good serious academic studies that conclude that some individuals do have special abilities. In my opinion, it is not something you can really test well in the lab.

I'm finding it very difficult to avoid getting into the philosophical and religious perspectives, which have a lot more to say on the subject than science, but if I start on either of those paths I will never get it finished.

All of that aside, many people have the experience, like Bill, of having "feelings" that prove out.  I've told about an incident that happened to me years ago.  Here it is again.

One time I was at work and only had a about an hour before another appointment, but I kept feeling that I should go detecting at a particular location. But I didn't have hardly any time.

I finally decided I would run down to the beach. By the time I got to the beach and in the water, I had about fifteen minutes to hunt. Well, I went in and in just a couple minutes had a diamond ring with over nine carats of diamonds - seven diamonds, each over one carat. I took my find and quickly left.

Normally I wouldn't have gone when I had so little time. If traffic had been bad, I would have had no time. But I felt like I should go. It kept nagging me, and it paid off with an unusually good quick find.


I don't know if it was just coincidence, intuition, or something else. You undoubtedly have your own ideas about that.

Feelings or hunches are part of the game.  Your feeling or hunch can be based upon a lot of accumulated knowledge and experience.  Intuitions can be based upon large amounts of accumulated knowledge and experience even when you are not totally conscious or aware of how it is coming together in your mind at the time. 

Sometimes I'll walk right to a target or get a feeling right before I get a good hit.  I remember one time when I walked down to the beach, turned on my detector, and found a reale on the second swing or my coil.  Did I walk out and automatically assess the beach and turn my detector on at the right location?  I don't know, but it would not surprise me  because as soon as I see a beach, I scan and assess it.

On the other hand, there have been many times when I hunted long and didn't find a thing.  You can't find it if it isn't there, but why did I pick a poor location on those occasions?  The answer might be that I wasn't open to my intuitions or feelings.  Sometimes I just go to the most convenient location. That doesn't leave much opportunity for hunches.  Maybe sometimes I don't give my feelings a chance.  

In football, when playing defense I seemed to have a natural knack for being around the ball.  I could get a good quick read of what was going on and what was likely to unfold and get to the right spot. I was just able to see what was developing.  We are always processing information subconsciously like that.  Some people access it and rely on it more than others.  You might say they are more intuitive.

Among those few scientists that accept and study things like ESP, the common conclusions are that some people are able to consistently perform better than what you would expect by chance, and second, certain conditions are required.  

I think most people who have been treasure hunting very long have had periods when they were hot and other periods when they were not.  It seems like you can get on the treasure trail.  It has happened to me and it has probably happened to you.  And then there are times when there are long dry spells.

If you believe in following your instincts or intuitions at all, you might ask yourself if there are times when you are more open to those feelings?  What can you do to be more open to your intuitions?  But I also recommend attempting to be objective, thoughtful and testing your feelings.

Some people are simply more intuitive than others.  It is a basic psychological personality trait. For the intuitive person, it is natural to follow feelings and hunches.  For the person that only believes in what they can see and explain, it might all seem very foolish.

For those of you who have an intuitive nature, there are some things you can do to foster the intuitive sense.  The most important is a peaceful spirit.  Emotion, especially negative emotions, will prevent an intuitive mindset.  Another requirement is a sense of  openness and expectation.

Intuitive or not, you can use metal detecting as a way to destress.  Go out alone.  Leave the crowds.  Be relaxed.  Take some deep breaths, listen to the wind and waves, feel the air and sand, and tune into the hum of the detector.

Listen.

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It took a lot of time for me to finish this post.  There are many related discussions that I had to avoid for the time being.

Beach conditions remain unchanged on the Treasure Coast.  We still have a one-foot surf.  There is, however, a new tropical disturbance coming off of Africa to watch.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net

8/6/15 Report - A Different Way To Use Your Scoop Very Effectively. Swimming Beach Finds Today. Intuition Experience By One Reader.

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.

This Mornings Finds.

I went out to the nearest swimming beach this morning to test out new ear phones.  I spent about an hour.

You want to have things in tip top shape or when we get a change in detecting conditions.  It is a good time for testing and experimentation.

You can usually find something at that beach, but usually cheap stuff.  That is the type of beach it is.

As in real estate, metal detecting is very much about location, location, location.

I did a post on metal detecting math one time.  That is very relevant here.  This beach is the type of place where the quantity is OK but the quality is poor.

Anyhow, the water was nice.  Good visibility. Gentle swells that increased a little after the sun got a little higher.

After hunting a little while, I turned my threshold down to silent.  That may have cost me a smidgen of depth, but nothing to be much concerned about.  I just liked the silence.  It was very pleasant with the gently rolling swells.

The shells that were visible on the sand were in little depressions.  The water movement was sufficient to move the sand where the water increased as it flowed around the shells, but was not sufficient to move shells of a certain size,

There were a lot of dive boats out today, as well as divers going in from the beach.   Lobster season began today.

Most people use their scoop something like a shovel.  I often use it more like a hoe.  In the water today the hoe method was uncommonly effective for some reason - I assume the currents.   It seemed to be working better than digging in and lifting.

If you have a deeper target and a decent size hole and still have not retrieved the object from the hole, you might try this method.

Put your scoop upside down in the far side of the hole.  Push down on the scoop with your foot.  And pull the scoop back towards you.

That was working uncommonly well this morning.  You might think that the object would fall out of the scoop but the sand and currents and upward movement tend to keep it in.  Even when it does not stay in the scoop, the object will probably end up outside the hole where it can easily be retrieved with the next scoop.

Also, if you need a really deep hole and can let go of your detector, use both hands on the scoop, and hoe like crazy.  That will get you a big deep hole in a hurry.  It combines fanning and scooping.

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At the beach I was at today, there are some spots where you can usually find some things.  One of the best spots is right in front of the central life guard station, the other is down at another walkway.

You can usually find recent drops in the wet sand and in the water at those locations.  The wet sand coins can be a tip off to where the better water spots might be.  That does not always work, but sometimes it does.

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Chattanooga (WDEF) - Federal Judge Curtis Collier sentenced two East Tennessee men to jail time for digging up Civil War artifacts.

39-year old Kenneth Fagin, Jr. from South Pittsburg and 61-year old Terry Tate from Manchester will serve 30 months in federal prison.

They were convicted of illegal archaeological excavation on federal property...

Here is the link for more of that story.

http://www.wdef.com/news/story/Men-Get-Jail-Term-For-Digging-Up-Civil-War/hGD8jydVg0uD3nYfogozpA.cspx

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The other day I talked about intuition and such things and asked people to send in any personal stories.  Larry sent in this one.

One afternoon after working at home, I asked myself, "what must I do to find a gold ring within the next hour?". It was a positive intention such as I had never felt in my gold hunting experience before.

I pulled up google maps, centered it over my favorite park field, wherein I had already found 4 gold rings. I cleared my mind of all thoughts while simultaneously moving my hand over the monitor. My purpose was to lose all conscious thought of my hand. It was almost like going to sleep, as directed thought slips out of your control and you start to dream. At that point my hand stopped, seemingly without conscious intervention. I triangulated the spot with trees and light poles, all of which I was intimately familiar with already.

I walked directly to the spot, checked the landmarks just for confirmation, found a signal, dug a hole, and pulled out a nice gold band with 3 diamonds about .2 carats each. I went right home. I'd been in the field no more than maybe 5 minutes.

Was this supernatural? Had I willed the find to occur? Had the remote digital dousing actually "worked" by means that we are not aware of? Or was it all just the random lining up of all those events in a way that humans are evolved to interpret as connected and meaningful by assigning causation to hidden, metaphysical "forces"?

I think the later is true, though I prefer believing the former.

Larry

Btw, I later found gold ring #6, no dousing involved.

Thanks Larry.

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Expect another week with the same kind of beach detecting conditions along the Treasure Coast.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net

8/4/15 Report - Lost Wedding Band. Mel and Deo Fisher Collection Auction. Intuition and Forms Of Paranormal Perception. Balloons Coming Home.

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesrport.blogspot.com.

One of Two Possible Locations of Wedding Band Lost In Ocean.

A man's yellow gold wedding band engraved "Amélie & Pierre" was lost in the ocean at either Palm Beach or Fort Lauderdale Aug. 2.  It wasn't noticed missing until he was in the water at Fort Lauderdale but was in the ocean at Palm Beach in front of Peruvian Ave. (shown above) earlier.

They don't know exactly where they were in Fort Lauderdale at the time.

Check for the engraving, which will provide a good ID.

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 To view the online auction of the Mel and Deo Fisher Collection here is the link. 

http://www.invaluable.com/catalog/searchLots.cfm?scp=c&catalogRef=LCOZ5LM9LU


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Here is an interesting story.  Not metal detecting, but I thought it was interesting anyhow.

An Oklahoma widow and her daughter who spent their first Father's Day without dad this year released balloons and a message at his grave site — and may have gotten a "message" back.

The pair was stunned when — after leaving the cemetery, running a few errands, and driving 25 mile back home — the balloon's note showed up at their house...

Once home, Saige went downhill from their house to the pasture where she and her father worked together and spotted her message with the balloons — only a few hundred feet from the house....

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/balloon-released-fathers-grave-flew-25-miles-familys-home-n402721

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The following remotely relates to the above story.


Nearly half of the adults in the United States believe in the existence of ESP, which includes telepathy (direct knowledge of another person's thoughts), clairvoyance (direct knowledge of remote events), and precognition (direct knowledge of the future). People commonly report unexplained knowledge of a loved one's death or a telephone caller's identity, for example, and attribute this knowledge to paranormal mental processing.

I've had those times, and I've sure many of you have too, when it seemed that a find was more than coincidental.

One time, for example, I was at work and only had a about an hour before another appointment, but kept feeling that I should go detecting at a particular location.   But I didn't have hardly any time.
I finally decided I would run down to the beach.  By the time I got to the beach and in the water, I had less than a half hour to hunt.  Well, I went in and in just a few minutes had a diamond ring with over nine carats of diamonds - seven diamonds, each over one carat.  I took my find and quickly left.

Normally I wouldn't have gone when I had so little time.  If traffic had been bad, I would have had no time.  But I felt like I should go.  It kept nagging me, and it paid off with an unusually good quick find.

I don't know if it was just coincidence, intuition, or something else.   I can't say with confidence that it was anything other than coincidence.

I do a lot of analysis.  I try to figure things out and make good calculated decisions.  You know that if you've been reading this blog very long.   Nonetheless,  I will follow my feelings at times regardless of anything else.  I doesn't pay off a lot.  I tend to do a lot better with a more analytical calculated approach.

One recent study by Harvard University claimed that by studying brain functions they found no experimental evidence for telepathy, clairvoyance or precognition.  Other books on similar things by scientists with good credentials indicates that there are conditions for such things and not all people have the same abilities. 

I find the Harvard study woefully inadequate anyway.   They were looking for electrochemical brain responses.  That is how normal perception works, but they were supposedly investigating "Extra-sensory" or paranormal perception.  Why would you expect paranormal perception to work just like normal perception.  If it did, it wouldn't be paranormal. 

I am not convinced either way and think alternative methods of perception may be possible, but I have no convincing evidence of them.  

Intuition could be nothing more than the assimilation of a lot of knowledge that isn't completely consciously clear at the time.  As tasks become automatic, you don't have to always be aware of each and every part of the task.   For example, you don't have think about putting one foot in front of the other and transferring your weight when you walk.  After you learn to walk, it becomes automatic.

Anyhow, I find good analysis and calculated decisions much more consistently productive, but I'm not ready to deny or ignore all of the subtle notions and feelings that I get.  As remarkable and stunning as intuitive successes might seem, they are much too rare.

I'd like to hear your stories of finds made through unusual coincidence, dowsing, intuition, ESP or any of those kinds of things.

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On the Treasure Coast we still have the one and two foot surf.  Expect the same for several days.  We are having some decent size tides.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net