Jomtien Beach Trip Preparations
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Published: June 27, 2010
I will be heading out for a 6-day beach hunt from 5-10 July and hope to finally find some Thai gold. I have been bugging my wife to go to the beach and she finally gave in and I got approval to go and to go alone. This will be nice – no guilt about leaving my wife in the hotel room while I am on the beach or in the water. I also plan to meet up with a guy who lives near Jomtien – so I will have a hunting partner.
This is a major operation for me. I had to book a flight from Khon Kaen to Bangkok (6,350 Thai baht round trip) and also book a hotel (6,200 Thai baht) – they had a special – stay 5 nights and pay for 4. And, I had to book a ride from Bangkok to Jomtien (1,500 Thai baht).
My wife has allotted a 700 Thai baht per day limit for me – so I have to eat and drink on about 20 bucks per day.
The trip will set me back about $500 total – but I will get to hunt for 6 days.
I will be using my Minelab Excalibur II 800 to hunt dry sand, wet sand, and go in the water. I will bring another detector, my ACE 250, as a backup – just in case. I don’t want to go that far and have my primary metal detector crap out and not be able to hunt.
I will be loaded down with electronics – camera, video cam, 220-110 converter, chargers for the detectors, batteries and chargers, laptop and Walkman.
I also have my sand scoops in for repair/modification – that will be another post.
I just hope I find enough to offset the cost of the trip – that would be nice.
