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Title: decline in beach finds ? Post by: brickie58 on August 16, 2016, 10:40:45 AM Anybody else found this, I know weather is a big factor but I think a lot of it is down to more people using debit cards ie less cash in there pockets to lose on the beach.
Title: Re: decline in beach finds ? Post by: TerraFirma on August 16, 2016, 12:31:20 PM looks like the local lads clean up in the evening when the grockles go home
Ive had 2 x trips to Barry recently only to find pulltabs and squashed cans ;) Title: Re: decline in beach finds ? Post by: brickie58 on August 16, 2016, 02:04:05 PM I am one of the local lads! Go down every night after a good day weather wise but finds are poor this past few years compared to the amount of people on the beach ?.
Title: Re: decline in beach finds ? Post by: probono on August 17, 2016, 02:56:18 AM I don't beach detect very often - the best I have ever managed is 20p :) and that was at Ogmore, not Barry, where the best I've found was a bit of pipe - and yet there were other people on the beach that day and whilst they didn't have much. it was still much better than what I found!
Title: Re: decline in beach finds ? Post by: brickie58 on August 17, 2016, 06:23:59 PM I detect on a small beach which I can see from home it's about half a mile long yesterday hot day there must have been a thousand people on it I went down at dusk and found no coins just the usual rubbish! And no nobody had detected it before me as I would have seen them that was the worst night I've ever had but like I said earlier in a post this is how it's been going the last few years, I know what im doing I am not a newbie and have a quality detector I have spoken to others and its the same on other beaches, strange.
Title: Re: decline in beach finds ? Post by: Slim Pickings on August 20, 2016, 11:55:38 AM Yes definitely right there I have been beach detecting down ere in the Southwest for 32 years and the finds over quite a few years now have got less and less
more people detecting the beaches in the summer months , but also the winters down this way have got milder and milder and we don't get the Easterly winds like we used to when I first started out,so the good stuff just keeps on going downwards out of range . Title: Re: decline in beach finds ? Post by: dances with badgers on August 21, 2016, 10:46:10 AM I agree guys .lot less cash comin up since i started four years ago.the weather is obviously a factor.we need summers like we used to have .
Title: Re: decline in beach finds ? Post by: jonty on August 21, 2016, 04:44:31 PM I used to average one gold ring every three or four visits to the beaches at Porthcawl. Since the heavy storms early in 2014 I have found very little, just a couple of quid now and again. Things were so bad soon after the storms I was hard pushed to find a ring pull. I am convinced the storms destroyed the top layers of sand and things will only get better when the holiday makers have re-seeded the beaches. |