Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of the Treasure Beaches Report.
I went out to look at some beaches Wednesday. John Brooks showed no additional improvement since the day before. In fact I saw some deterioration. Notice the seaweed. Targets were fewer.
I also visited Walton Rocks. I was late to the party there. I could see that I missed some earlier nice cuts. Maybe they were from the day before, but also prior to that.
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To the north there were no apparent cuts. I don't know about around the bend.
From the above view you can't tell a lot, but there was a nice old cut down there. It wasn't brand new. In fact, there was evidence of a couple older cuts.
That is one beach that has been in a long-term erosion trend - ever since the last renourishment project. The beach to the south has been losing since then with minor refills in between. Again, I don't know what has been going on up around the bend. Dur to variety of reasons, I spent very little time in the field in 2025. Almost ashamed of myself.
There was a line of exposed rock running along the low beach to the south.
Sorry, I didn't take the best photos here. I was wanting to get started with the detector.
Down a few inches was the orange color shelly layer. That has been there over the past year or so, at least.
When you hit the shell layer there is a lot of aluminum junk.
That area had evidently been detected recently, but a LOT of junk remained.
That area of Walton Rocks can be a real challenge if you don't want to dig junk. Besides the aluminum there is a lot of copper, lead and iron.
Even with the great target ID of the Manticore, there is such a heavy amount and mixture of junk it is hard to tell what it what.
I've always been a dig-it-all kind of guy, but these days I don't put in sufficient time to do that, and I try to save my back. It is almost impossible to get some targets out from under and in between the stones, and some of the old items will slip down into the cracks and crevices. That, besides the shell layer, makes for some tough digging.
One of the first signals I dug was the tiny heavily corroded silver ring, which showed as a nice oval on the high end of the center line on the Manticore. I quit early and bet there are still some good things there if you are patient and willing to dig some junk. I haven't cleaned up or examined yesterday's finds very well yet.
Anyhow, I was able to pick a few better targets out of between the junk, but my biggest accomplishment of the day was being able to dig as much as I did, and my back is fine today.
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I have a find from a reader that I plan to post tomorrow.
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