Sometimes it can be a difficult decision on whether to go out into the freezing cold and hunt for treasures or to stay put in your nice cozy warm room and watch a game or two on your high def television.

It can also make it difficult if you have not been finding any real treasures lately. Your moral can go down and the power of being positive can do wonders for your spirit.

Another thing to note is that very few people will be out metal detecting, so you can have the whole area to yourself! This will increase you odds of finding gold rings and such.

I would like to encourage anyone to send in any finds and I will gladly post them on this site. It helps to keep moral up. Who isn’t inspired by gold?

Mike in Jacksonville, Florida sent me a picture that should inspire anyone. If this does not make you want to go and use your metal detector, then nothing will.

He found this nice 14kt gold band in the wet sand at his local beach spot. Nice find. I can’t think of anyone who would not like to see this in the bottom of their scoop.

I was metal detecting a section of beach the other day that had been eroded and covered back up again. The finds were few and far between. It was cold and the wind was blowing hard.

I was not finding much of anything. The beach was covered in Sargasso Weed. If your not familiar with this stuff, it is really interesting. It gets blown ashore when the wind is blowing hard from the east. If you look at the Sargasso weed very closely you will find dozens of creatures inside some of which only live in that specific weed. It is a fascinating thing to examine. I have seen fish, shrimp, crabs, seahorses, sea slugs and some creatures that I can not identify and all of them were found in a chunk of weed that fit into both of my hands. This stuff comes from the Bermuda Triangle, actually it comes from a section of sea called the Sargasso Sea.  It is one huge gathering of this weed. Ready for this? It is 700 miles wide and 2000 miles long. Read more about it by clicking here.

Whenever I find this weed on the beach, It makes it hard to metal detect and the finds are usually few and far between. With the Sargasso weed also comes the Portuguese Manowar.  I would not want to step on one of these blue jellyfish. It does hurt.

While I was combing the beach and picking through the weed, I got a good signal and dug up this encrusted coin. At first look, I was a little excited. It is bigger than a quarter and it is covered with sand and shells. It looks too round to be anything very old. I do not think that it is anything of worth but I will clean it up and see what is underneath. If you think you know what it is let me know! Also someone emailed a picture of a nice big gold ring that was found recently. I will post it soon.

A few days ago I made a post and at the bottom of the post, I showed a picture of a large cut at the beach. Those cuts have already been filled back in. It does not take long for the beach to rebuild itself.

It is true that when the beach does erode in such a way that your odds of finding treasures increases significantly. All of that sand has been removed and it exposes an under layer of sand that has not seen the light for quite some time. Heavier objects like fishing weights, gold rings and platinum rings are often so far in the soft sand that your metal detector will not reach them. When all of that sand gets swept away, all of that jewelry that has been secretly hiding for years  is no longer beyond your metal detectors reach and it really wants YOU to find it.

Objects of like density will always gather at the beach. If you start finding lots of lead fishing weights make sure that you really hit that area hard.

I have said this quite a few times. The beach is always changing and here is a great example.  This beach had nice three to four foot cuts that were created by large waves and strong winds.

Notice the little cliffs? Those were around three feet high. Now, just a few days later these cuts are long gone. Any old heavier objects are now buried under three feet of sand. That is not always a bad thing because there are still lighter treasures that are note worthy and they might be completely exposed now that all of that sand has been sifted and re-arranged. Here is a picture of that same beach now.

No more cliffs. You just have to be in the right place at the right time.