After checking the tides and realising that low tide was 5am-ish we decided on an early morning jaunt to Browns Bay. So arising at 4am and after a flash cup of coffee we headed out to the North Shore. Stopping only to get fresh AA batteries for my Beach Magnet and Garfy a rock hard pie.
The beach was already occupied by a couple of dog walkers and around 6am there were two well attended keep fit classes in action. A huge passenger liner all lights blazing slipped slowly across the near horizon. We donned our headlights and headed beachwards. I went straight to the water line and within seconds I dug a fishing lure all sparkly with hooks attached. The sun arose and pierced the raggity clouds with several laser like sunbeams, it was all quite spectacular. More so than the detecting. In the next three hours I rescued a key, a tent peg and a solitary 10 cent coin from
the clutches of the sand. Garfy did a little better managing to finance his late breakfast on the way home. Not many targets out by the low tide mark but I figure it was better than being asleep.
We also had a quick 30 minutes swinging on Waiake beach, the next beach along with the Tor sitting in the bay. Again very little luck. A lady said she had lost a gold chain with an opal pendant at the southern end of the beach. This ignited both our interest and our chivalery but alas we were unable to reunite the lady with her necklace.
Before nine we were heading home.
I'm staying in the city tonight so I might hit a park on the way home tomorrow.
