Sai Kaew Beach Sand
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Published: April 7, 2010
Retired in Thailand and spent my first week at Sai Kaew Beach on the island of Samet.
Sai Kaew Beach, Koh Samet
I went metal detecting every day, twice a day and learned quite a bit about Thailand beaches and detecting here. This is the same but different than Hawaii.
My first incorrect assumption was that I would be the only detectorist on the island. I was wrong and met up with two local Thai males hunting.
My second incorrect assumption of easily finding gold went down the tubes as well.
Getting back to the sand. The dry sand is as fine as flour or powdered sugar. However, this area is covered in beach chairs and umbrellas most of the day. I was able to hunt this area from about 0600-0800 prior to the vendors setting up their areas. This area is also hand-raked to make for a nice appearance – so – there were coins – but about 1 coin per every 100 bottle caps.
Sai Kaew Beach Dry Sand
I didn’t see the Thai guys hunting up here and I think the only reason no one complained when I hunted the dry sand is that I am a tourist here.
Where the dry sand ends, is hard packed sand. At first I thought this was just hard packed sand – but after watching the beach daily, this is the high tide line. The sand is so firmly packed that you can just about roller skate on it. I occasionally hunted this area – but usually just random walks on the way back to my room.
Sai Kaew Beach Wet Sand
So, after about 4 days of finding “stuff” on the it was time to watch my counterparts and learn. I noticed that they only worked the wet sand and about ankle deep in the water. They would go back and forth on the wet sand as the tide receded. Since this beach is about 1 kilometer long, there were gaps in their hunting areas. They would work about a 3 foot wide area and on the return another 3 foot wide area, but the water had receded to a point where there was about 8 to 10 feet between hunting areas.
I knew exactly where they hunted as they did not fill their holes and did not pick up any trash. I saw numerous holes with pull tabs and bottle caps lying right beside. These guys may know where to hunt, but they will dig the same trash daily if not picked up.
Sai Kaew Beach Shoreline
In the water was where I thought pickings would be better. Wrong again. I spent about 4 hours total in the water from ankle to chest deep and did not get one single signal until about the final 1/2 hour and then only found pull tabs.
So, now I know. Study the tides and work the wet sand as the tide goes out. This beach was way different than any beach I have hunted on Hawaii. There is no coral, reef, or rocks in the water. It is just that hard packed sand covered with water. The waves are not big enough to generate any troughs in the sand, so no real areas for goodies to collect. There is no “towel line” as people either sat in beach chairs on the upper end of the beach or laid in the water at the shore break. There were hardly any people in between.
I will continue to see if this hold trues at other beaches on the Gulf of Thailand.
