Last week we road tripped to Sebastian, Florida to do a little vacationing and a little bit of treasure hunting. We didnt get out metal detecting nearly as much as I wanted to, but it was a nice family vacation. While in Sebastian we visited the Mclarty and the Mel Fisher treasure museums, which were pretty cool. The Mel Fisher museum had some very interesting artifacts, and even had a gold bar from the shipwrecks that you could hold. First day out all we hit was some clad, i found a fired casing (looks like 9mm), and alot of trash. But i am learning my new machine, a minelab safari, so im diggin everything. Next day got some more clad another casing and what looks like a bead from a rosary, possibly gold, and possibly from the 1715 fleet, potentially a great find. Next day out we got a really late start, we started detecting a few hours after low tide. My cousin Jay got a big signal using the garret ace250 so he called us over. Well we had pretty good signals too, and since we figured a cannon was found less than a mile from here a few weeks ago with gold coins in the barrel, lets dig! We had just enough room to start diggin from the tide, but our kitty litter scoops were severely inadequate for this application, so Jay went to the store to get some shovels. By the time he got back we had some of it exposed, but high tide was filling in every other shovel full. Ill be dammed if it didnt look somewhat like a cannon. We got pretty excited, i was a bit skeptical, but excited none the less. We decided to cover it up, mark the spot and return in the moorning. Well waking up at 4am was pretty miserable on vacation, but it was an hour ride from the house we rented. Got there nice and early, and had the gear we needed-except bug spray. Those dam no-see-ums or sand fleas they have by vero beach suck! its been a week and we are all still itchin like crazy! Well we got to the site and started digging. Do you think it was a cannon? hell no it was a dam truck axle! made me lmao, but at least we have a funny story to tell!
