Detecting booming on the Costa del Sol
Posted: Sun Dec 15, 2013 6:38 pm
Just had a great weeks holiday in Torremolinos with the wife but left the detector at home due to the Spanish Authorities views on detecting.I have never seen detecting on any beach on previous visits. You can imagine my surprise at seeing 6 different detectorists detecting the beaches there, they were all Spanish nationals which my attempts to communicate with them revealed. I wish I had kept up with the Spanish language classes 30 years back 
This guy was the first I came across working the dry sand with a coil the size of a dustbin lid on the end of his detector.
Then on a walk to Benalmadena we came across these two hunting in an eroded section of the beach, they were certainly not new to beach detecting. They were both using Minelab machines of some sort and wearing waders, this photo does not show how rough the sea was but just after taking it a wave almost swamped one of them and was up to his hips. They were digging lots of signals and many finds were going in their coat pockets, scrap was just getting thrown out to sea
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They were using a recovery tool I had not seen used before it was a short handled hoe that they used to dig out the sand and flick it further up the beach to recover the find.
On the way back to our hotel I spotted another guy on the damp sand also using a hoe type tool but I did not have the heart to try and tell him his Search head was the wrong way round
This photo shows just how rough the sea was on that day due to strong winds we had for a couple of days.
I did not have my camera handy for the other detectorists but none of them seemed to attract attention from the local Police whose cars patrolled the front at regular intervals.
Ray
This guy was the first I came across working the dry sand with a coil the size of a dustbin lid on the end of his detector.
Then on a walk to Benalmadena we came across these two hunting in an eroded section of the beach, they were certainly not new to beach detecting. They were both using Minelab machines of some sort and wearing waders, this photo does not show how rough the sea was but just after taking it a wave almost swamped one of them and was up to his hips. They were digging lots of signals and many finds were going in their coat pockets, scrap was just getting thrown out to sea
.They were using a recovery tool I had not seen used before it was a short handled hoe that they used to dig out the sand and flick it further up the beach to recover the find.
On the way back to our hotel I spotted another guy on the damp sand also using a hoe type tool but I did not have the heart to try and tell him his Search head was the wrong way round
This photo shows just how rough the sea was on that day due to strong winds we had for a couple of days.I did not have my camera handy for the other detectorists but none of them seemed to attract attention from the local Police whose cars patrolled the front at regular intervals.
Ray
what do you think
not sure how well it works tho