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<p>[QUOTE="Andy, post: 69596, member: 645"]<b>One of these days</b></p><p><br /></p><p>I used to think that something was wrong with people who went metal detecting but I think that was part of the brain washing one grows up with when exposed to the New York media as a young child. Now I have had an itch to go detecting. I think that is sounds like fun to scout out an area's history and then decide where the best spot would be. I actually had a nice chat with someone who was detecting off Vanderbilt beach in Naples, Florida. I asked him if there was any Spanish Gold in these waters and he told me "no just rich man's gold" and he pointed to the Ritz Carlton overlooking the beach. He then told me that he had found two rolex's in the ten years that he was detecting and alot of 24 caret gold bracelets. Being more interested in coins, I decided that was not a good place to metal detect and when I do make the purchase of a detecter I will not waste my time looking for coins there. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>True story but written tongue in cheek.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Andy, post: 69596, member: 645"][b]One of these days[/b] I used to think that something was wrong with people who went metal detecting but I think that was part of the brain washing one grows up with when exposed to the New York media as a young child. Now I have had an itch to go detecting. I think that is sounds like fun to scout out an area's history and then decide where the best spot would be. I actually had a nice chat with someone who was detecting off Vanderbilt beach in Naples, Florida. I asked him if there was any Spanish Gold in these waters and he told me "no just rich man's gold" and he pointed to the Ritz Carlton overlooking the beach. He then told me that he had found two rolex's in the ten years that he was detecting and alot of 24 caret gold bracelets. Being more interested in coins, I decided that was not a good place to metal detect and when I do make the purchase of a detecter I will not waste my time looking for coins there. :) True story but written tongue in cheek.[/QUOTE]
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