Treasure on the Beach

didya find a pair of hot pink sunglasses? I was dumb to wear them out in the lineup in Carolina Beach.

 

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Sorry Betty, had to add this...sounds awesome though, love finding treasure on the beach.

Hey you CA guys ever see this place?

 

Hahaha it's always a good time when a South Park reference is made

 

Yessir! Dare I say, it's like finding buried treashah!

 

Gotta add my "treasure" story. About two weeks ago I was surfing and noticed two middle aged women watching me surf. ( I'm 51 so they were probably younger than me!) Anyway I'm hamming it up, catch a nice wave and ride the reform all the way to the beach and step off the board in front of them. I reach down to undo my leash and there in the surf was a pair of gold mirrored aviators. I undid my leash, put on the glasses and strolled by the women without cracking a smile, as if after every session Poseidon leaves me shades for the walk up the beach. I walked about 5 yards and turned back and grinned and they both started laughing.

 

Like a boss?

 

Many beaches in Washington state are still pulling up treasures from Fukushima.

 

Betty, your story reminds me of the first time we went to MacArthur State Park on Singer Island many years ago. The beach was loaded with Scotch Bonnet shells. Literally thousands of them. We started picking them up but soon realized we needed to be a bit selective as we didn't have a way to carry them all. Never seen anything like it before or since.

My wife is an avid beachcomber and finds all kinds of stuff. Our local beach is south of Port Everglades (Fort Lauderdale) Inlet and both trash and treasure accumulates along the jetty there. Over time she's found over $200 in cash. A GoPro Hero 3 a few months ago. Snorkels, masks and fins are common. Lots of sunglasses. I have several pairs of beach-find Oakleys ($30 for replacement lenses = $150 sunglasses). Last year they did a maintainence dredge of the inlet and it stirred up tons of stuff including a half dozen Churchill Makapuu fins (no matched sets, good for spares). Used to get lots of seaglass here before they replenished sand about ten years ago.

Yesterday morning we went for a swim before the crowds got thick. I was heading back to the beach from bodysurfing some small wind chop when I noticed a group of snorkelers searching for something in the white water. One of them had lost a mask. A while later I went out for a few more waves half looking for the mask on my way. Glanced down and there it was, an expensive mask and snorkel too. Returned it to the owner. I didn't get to splash water on her like seldom seen but she did give me a hug!

Always remember to thank Mother Ocean for the gifts she provides us.

 

When you said "I reach down to undo my leash," I thought it would be followed by "and I realized my dong was hanging out." Nonetheless, great story CB. Timeless antics.

 

Once i have no idea how but i split my boardies in the front while riding a wave in you guessed it , Belmar (it was 23 ft, not the waves). No really though I rode it to the beach hit the sand and thought I was like Kelly Slater for a sec as all eyes were on me then I felt the breeze.....

 

I believe I posted this before, but can't find it. Once, under the Oregon Inlet bridge, we were treated to conchs and and snail shell every time a small wave came thru. My buddy and I were in 2, 4X4s. cruising side by side. Sand hard enough not to have to lock the hubs. We both noticed a big conch near the water line. He was closest to the water and cut a hard right. by the time I turned, he was sunk to the body. A drunken good old boy in a monster truck stopped to help with a beer in hand. Park ranger showed up and stood back. The GOB pulled my pal out. My buddy got freed with only a bent out bumper, the GOB got handcuffed and hauled off to jail, and my buzz was increased by the presence of the law and trying not to say "I told you to put the beer away" to the peckerwood. Basically a win win for me.

 

i was in the pool!!!

 

Rip Curl boardies with the cloth fly are 10000% better than zip flys. I have XCEL baggies that I love but the zip flys have put on a show for the shorebreak many times when I'm exiting the water.

 

NJglide with the 23ft dong for the win, even Roy don't have wood like that!

 

Four or five years ago I was out jogging along Dam Neck Beach late one afternoon. It was spring time, I think. All long the beach were scattered whelk shells. Large ones, about 8 inches or so. There had been no storm. All the shells were clean and empty, their owners long gone. Must have collected over 30 of them before it was dark. Never finished my run. That was the first and last time I saw such an occurrence there. They looked like these below but in better condition:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fb/Knobbed_whelk_shells.jpg

Here's with the live critter inside:
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The most shells, in number and variety I've seen was at Sanibel Island, FL, near Ft Myers on the Gulf Coast. The area has long been noted for them. Although not nearly as many as there used to be. We used to go there quite a bit over the years on family vacations.
I don't see a problem with collecting empty shells as long as the environment isn't harmed in the process, but collecting shells with the animal still in them and killing them just for the shells is a terrible practice that really bugs me.

 

"Treasure on the Beach" this morning and later in the afternoon was a near empty beach. Surf was mostly knee high with some waist high, but clean and ride-able, especially in the morning with the offshore breeze. VB water temp approaching 80. During both sessions, only three of us were out. The day after Labor Day and what a difference already.
To get back on topic, this morning there there were lots of small shells, pieces of large ones, horseshoe crabs, and discarded sand toys. Nothing unusual.

 

My beach was packed today with beachgoers. No swell to speak of but tail frolicking still. A lot of oeopke without kids must have taken the week off.