Metal Detecting with the Minelab Explorer II: Lincoln City, Oregon - Taft Beach

Took the kidlets out to Lincoln City on the Oregon Coast yesterday to Taft Beach.  Took the Minelab Explorer II as well.  Did a bit of exploring over on the beach and had a bit of success as well.


I really don't use it all that much - especially for as much as I paid for it.  But I'm still figuring it out and figured out why some places seemed so "clean."  I had the discriminator set to overlook a bunch of things I might be interested in digging up.

So, once I figured that out (you know if I read the owner's manual I might have figured that out sooner) all of a sudden the beach that just a moment previous was the "world's cleanest beach that nobody litters on" suddenly became the future prospect site of the "World Corps Beach Strip Mine" with the world's motherload of aluminum pull tab deposits and iron ore from dock nails. 

I managed to set it so that it filtered out iron and pretty soon was able to figure out the difference on the digital display between a coin and a pop bottle top and then - all of a sudden - WHAM! WHAM! WHAM!   I found a small handful of change in short order - quarter, nickel, dime, penny - a spanish gold coin from Queen Isabella in 1492 buried in the sand remained elusive however.  I remain optimistic though.

By that time I was pretty tired from the pace as I'd been going for an hour and a half trying to figure the thing out some more while pulling my kids off the hotel rocks and making sure they weren't bothering the childless liberal tourists who might not be acquainted with "little people" in their effort to extinguish their genes and thereby make the planet a better place. I think that's a reasonable plan - just don't try to extinguish mine through public education while you're at it.

On a political note - where does that fit in with evolutionary psychology if there's no God?   The desire to not have kids to improve the planet?  In my evolutionary psychology studies, it seemed every abberation was explained in terms of "helping others" genes survive. 

Example - weak shark gets eaten by strong shark in an effort to help the strong shark propagate its genes - it is therefore using the "altruistic-helping-other-sharks-kick-and-eat-my-ass-so-they-can-have-a-better-life-than-me-and-kick-the-rest-of-my-relatives'-asses-and-fins-across-the-ocean-floor" gene. 

The homo gene?  Also known as the "altruistically-helping-others-have-a-manlier-sex-life-than-me-and-perpetuate-their-genes-and-not-minebecause-I-care-so-much-about-their-genes" gene.

At right is shown the "fat-person-altruistically-helping-skinnier-peoples'-genes-survive-by-killing-myself-so-I-don't-consume-as-much-food-so-their-genes-have-a-better-chance-of-surviving" gene played out to its full extent.

What does this have to do with metal detecting? 

Absolutely nothing.

It's just the politically incorrect stab at the world we live in.

But I think I've got it almost down to where I can really start going to town with the thing.  If y'all want to help me out just go out and drop your jewelry somewhere and then let me know where to go look.....or you can just mail it to me so I don't have to use batteries in the Minelab.   Thanks!

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