Just a little more info for flavor. First, I hunt almost every night around the apartment complex where I live, so hunting in the dark is no big deal. If anything it just helps improve my pinpointing ability....(think about it)
Let me tell you a story--a story of a most awsome power
The date 1/2/99-- the place is the beach. My son and I had gone to the beach for an easy night of searching....coins, jewelery, old gold and silver coins (HAH). We had decided to go even with severe storm warnings all around us. From one coast of Florida to the other was cover with bad storm cells producing dangerous lightning and possable hail. BIG DEAL!!!!! We get to the beach around 10:30 PM and start a long walk down the beach. The first 45 minutes I keep asking Ryan, ( my son), "did you just see a flash over there?" And his reply was "no, have you got a good hit yet???"
Around 11:15, after having not heard a peep from my metal detector, we realize that the dog-gone thing had broken.I had decided that maybe the batteries had gone dead and that we should stop at a picknick table to change them. Around 11:45, my metaldetector is toast, we have observed an increadable display of lightning from cloud to cloud and cloud to water, the car is almost a mile away and the lightning is getting worse.
We got back to the car without getting wet, but we did suffer from some temperary blindness, ( two or three seconds per and at almost every bolt), due to the increadabley bright nearby lightning strikes. It was awsome to watch that much lightning strike so near to us...yes we also thought of the danger and have not done that again!!! But the light.......if I had a camera, if you live on or near a beach you know what I'm talking about.
PS. my son is 17 yrs old, and is old enough that I don't force him come with me, he does so by choice... ..............
