Flintshire Newbie

[Christoph1945]

Hi All,
           just thought that I would introduce myself. I'm Chris, a 67 year old, retired Aviation Security Officer; married with two grown up kids who have flown the nest. When I retired we started spending a lot of time down on the North Wales coast.

           Having always had a general interest in metal detecting, I decided to buy a decent detector for beach work on wet and dry sand. I eventually plumped for the C-Scope CS4PI and have been detecting the beaches at Talacre, Barkby, and Rhyl. I don't think that I am ever going to get rich at this game, but for me it is all about the thrill of the chase and not the kill!

          I must say that I have been amazed by the rubbish, broken glass, and scrap iron that I find at Talacre. During my first season there, I picked up over 10kg of sharp, broken, nasty glass, between the lighthouse and the tern colony. Oh and several hypodermic needles.

                                                Chris   
          

[geordiefred]

welcome aboard m8 

[Roman (Ray)]

HI CHRISTOPHER !!
wellcome to detectingwales mate.

[Christoph1945]

Thanks for the warm welcome chaps; I hope to be sticking around for a long time, God willing!

                                  Chris

[wayno]

big welcome to you Chris

[Christoph1945]

Thanks Wayno. any tips for Talacre?

[DEADLOCK]

hello chris welcome to the dw forum enjoy

[Christoph1945]

Thanks Deadlock; still feeling my way round.

            Chris

[jmhammered]

just watch for the needles on all of them beachs m8, deadly !!!!!!

[Dusty]

Talacre is pants. 

When I first started I hit it hard for months and if I were collecting iron I'd have been well chuffed but came out with a grand total of around £3 for my efforts! Still, it was an experience if nothing else..

[Christoph1945]

just watch for the needles on all of them beachs m8, deadly !!!!!!

Thanks Jmhammered, the needles that I found at Talacre turned up on the high tide line amongst the flotsam. I always try to have a small sharps box with me. As well as detecting, I signed up with Keep Wales Tidy and they issued me with some cleaning kit.

                                 Chris

[Christoph1945]

              Hi Dusty. The scrap at Talacre is unbelievable. Rhyl is better, and Barkby is clean by comparison. I thought that, perhaps, a rally at Talacre would be a good idea. £10 pound a head entry fee, devide the beach up like a fishing competition, recover all targets, then split the kitty 50/50. Half to go to the person whose name was drawn from a hat, and half to go to RNLI. A day that gave the most daylight hours between high tides would be chosen.

              We would remove tons of scrap, get a good name for detecting, and show HRH Prince Charles that we detectorist do a good job on Crown Beaches. Maybe HRH would then let us detect on his beaches for free.

              The Keep Wales Tidy team, and the Flintshire Coastal Rangers, are doing a clean up at Talacre on Friday, March 16th and I'm going to run the idea by them and see what they think of it.

                                          Chris

                                                   

             

[jmhammered]

im sure there are a lot better places to hold a rally, than there ,good effort but really a scrap heap of a place

[Christoph1945]

I'm sure there are a lot better places to hold a rally, than there ,good effort but really a scrap heap of a place

You are right JM, but because the place is so full of scrap and nasty sharp objects, I thought that it would serve well for our purpose of high profiling the good that detectorists do for the Crown Beaches. No individual would profit from the funds and perhaps the caravan sites would be intereted in becoming involved.

                                        Chris

[jmhammered]

A very good idea, never looked at it from that point of view, I see were your coming from ,put my name down as a starter Chris if you can get a few more all the better ,
         cheers John