Hit the Beach

   Hit the beach after work on Camp Lejuene, it was a nice afternoon with about 1+30 left before the sun went down. Off shore there was some MEU work-ups going on with a LHA out a few miles and a bunch of LCAC's heading from shore to sea to redeveous with the ships offshore. I was happy with the fact that my cammies are hung up for good and I'm not on the flight deck of that LHA and that I'm here just to swing the Minelab.

   The winter is the best time to detect here as the sand moves offshore leaving some nice hard gravel near the top. My first hit in about 30 seconds of swinging brought up a gold ring. The ocean was not too kind to it as it was pretty beat, may have been there since the 30's as the area was a tourist place then. A little while later I snagged a braclet, I'm not sure if it's silver or not, maybe one of those titanium power deals? Lots of bullets and coins too! It was fun as hell, and I'm heading back soon as possible!

Semper Fi,
Bob

The Return of Makoboy...?

Fossil Fiends,

During the Christmas holiday WildRick proposed a planned dig at the tail end of January... as I looked at my hardhat with the most recent sticker dated 2009 I decided to circle the date and put in some leave papers for the day. That day was just here FossilFiends, and unfortunately at least for Rick who traveled down from Raleigh weather was a issue with the mines in Eastern Carolina barring access. Rick headed to the spoils piles at Aurora. I decided to try my lucky elsewhere. The rain was still a problem at my local friendly mine, but after showing Mr. Meadows my scuba license and MSHAW and OSHA regulated distress whistle I got access by my lonesome to the muddy,sticky,sandy,gooey million year old slop.

In no more than five minutes.... five minutes.... there was a Ricky that my buddy WildRick has been dreaming about as he drives down I-40. Too bad for him, lucky for me! After a time out for a 20 minute downpour, I headed back out, to uncover a bunch of fresh marl lumps full of interesting shells take a look! It was some rough hammer work to say the least, and without my MSHAW / OSHA approved safety glasses quite hazardous. But like Dewayne Varnum, and George Powell taught "you pick up and bring out what you don't know." So, what are these shells? Are they top shelf or shoebox?
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