Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.
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| Source: MagicSeaWeed.com |
The big news for me today is the forecast. MagicSeaWeed is predicting up to an eight foot surf for next Tuesday. The wind will be mostly northeast and the tides are increasing too. If that holds or gets even better we might be in for some good beach hunting conditions.
Keep watching.
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A couple decades ago, a book entitled Who Moved My Cheese was very popular in the field of business motivation. Despite the title, the book isn't about cheese at all, but uses two mice and two miniature people as characters in a parable to illustrate some important lessons. Every detectorist should read that book, or at least learn the lessons the book teaches.
Doing the book a gross injustice, I'll boil it down to this - the mice lived in a maze and were accustomed to always finding abundant cheese in a particular location, but one day when they went out to get their daily fill, they find no cheese where they always found it in the past. They fear there will be no more cheese and blame everybody else for their failure (thus the title Who Moved My Cheese) instead of moving on and finding a new cache.
Here are some of the main lessons from the book. Things will change. Change is inevitable. Don't be afraid of change. If you don't change you will become extinct. Be ready to change quickly, and enjoy it again and again.
The book applies to metal detecting as well or better than it applies to business. Things will change. Some day you'll find that doing the same thing that was always successful in the past will no longer work as well. And people will think that there is no more treasure or that the beach or detecting site no longer produces. To continue to be successful, you will have to change. You can not keep hunting the same site, or the same kind of sites, using the same techniques and expect to continue being successful. Be among the first to change. Take the challenge and enjoy it. Progressing is necessary just to stay even.
There are plenty of obstacles for detectorists, but they can and should be overcome. Here are my four big Os - Overcome Obstacles to Open Opportunities.
An obstacle is often a sign of a new opportunities. The obstacles don't have to be big - just big enough. You can do well by working the places with small obstacles that no one else wants to bother with or perhaps does not know how to work. Some that I've worked were just a little farther out of the way or covered with trash or mud or weeds or somehow not as accessible.
A lack of creativity or willingness to change can be a different type of obstacle.
If it was really easy, everybody else would do it, and sometimes it seems like they are. If you are just doing he easy stuff, there will be plenty of others that are doing it too. If you are doing what is easy, that is one sign that it is time to start thinking about how you can take the next step.
There are always new frontiers. And you might be surprised how much is out there to be found. That is one reason I tell you day after day about what is being found.
I'll never forget the first time I went out on a wooded hillside in West Virginia. Everybody said, "There is nothing there. You won't find anything." On my first outing, I found a gold 1940 something high school class ring. On subsequent outings, I found old coins and relics from previous centuries.
On my first outing on a Caribbean island, I found 18th century military buttons, ordnance and other relics.
But you don't have to go to distant places. There is stuff almost everywhere.
I no longer live near the glitzy resorts of Miami where people visited and lost their coins and jewelry for over a hundred years. I now live in an unremarkable place that has to be maintained continually just to keep it from once again becoming a wooded mass of thorns, vines and trees. There is nothing that would suggest that anything ever went on there - certainly nothing important. It is a place no different than millions and millions of other places. Yet within walking distance, and without any equipment or anything other than the clothes to cover my nakedness, I've found fossils that are millions of years old, Native American artifacts, pioneer relics as well as most of the bottles and glass insulators that I've posted. I'm just saying there is a lot of stuff out there. I'm not talking about some world-famous treasure island where you might expect to find buried treasure galleons or the Holy Grail or Ark of the Covenant where people have searched for centuries and turned everything upside down with heavy equipment and scanned with high tech tools. I'm talking about Anywhere USA. You don't have to go far unless you have a particular treasure in mind.
I can't tell you all the kinds of places you should look or how you should work them,pl but they don't have to be far away. In fact, they might be right under your nose. Believe it or not there are more places that are unhunted than places that are over-hunted.
My main point today is that there is a lot still out there to be found, but like the book says, you might have to make some changes to find it.
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Dale J. sent me the following photos of his find.
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| Find and photo by Dale J. |
He said, The red circles show rusted iron, a close up of the one possible spike sticking out, there are oyster shells only on one end. Not sure how long it was washed up it was not moving in today’s small surf. This is north of Ft. Pierce Inlet. About 8 feet long and 12x12 inches.
Here is another look.
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| Find and photo by Dale J. |
Interesting! Thanks Dale.
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Keep watching the surf reports.
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