That's amazing! Keep at it.
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One of my favorite Wild Coast destinations is Msikaba. It's also the wreck site of the 900ton Portuguese carrack, Sao Bento, which were wrecked on the night of 24 April 1554. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/São_Bento_(carrack)
Locals have been digging and looking for treasure for generations and I've met a local who found porcelain (look like pieces of a broken plate) and gold, including a gold bar. He refused to show me the gold bar, but showed me what looks like a lid off some or other small container. Defnitley gold.
When I go to Msikaba, I go there to relax, iow to do nothing, so we spend hours on the beach, swimming, walking around on the island and fishing. On one of my recent trips, I sat on the island under the beach umbrella with the cooler box next to me, enjoying a few cold ones while swambo and mini swambo tried to catch small fish with mini swambo's net in the rock pools. While sitting on the sand I took a flat stone and started digging, about half a meter down I found 2 pieces of carnelian beads which came off the Sau Bento. The tide started coming in so we had to go. The next day I went back to the island, started digging and found another carnelian bead in almost perfect shape. It was an amazing experience to find something off a ship which were wrecked more than 460 years ago. Locals can't believe I found 3 beads in two days, as many of them have been digging there for 15 years and not find anything.
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From the Wiki report you may have found Manny's grandparents
Interesting that they set out to walk to Inhambane - 1000 kilo's away
Wonder if they made it?
Also the beads are a semi-precious stone ?
Amazing, keep it up.
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Interesting and awesome experience finding these. As a child I spent our times at Cape Vidal snorkeling in the bay almost permanently, staring at the mast of the Dorothea that is visible at times, hoping to find something like you did.
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I have fished and been to Cape Vidal probably a 100 times
Didnt know about this shipwreck at all
It says the anchor is visible on the rocks
Would that be the "shelf" that goes parallel to the beach
Again fished that at low tide many times but no memory of an anchor
Amazing
Well to me anyway
Hi Ross, I did a quick search on Google- this came up.
http://treasurehunters.co.za/forums/...-vidal-africa/
I can't remember seeing the anchor, I do remember the pretty girl I met on the beach one day and the hiding I got from slicing my finger open with a bait knife while still at school.
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Where is the mast you speak of
Say in relation to the very tip of the rock shelf ?
This photo is off the internet, but looks exactly like the gold lid I was shown by the local guy. I'm sure it's the same one.
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At vidal just off the beach in line with the end of the shelf
is a huge rock - sometimes visible at spring low
But it is so totally out of place that it may be the concrete that the gold was hidden under
I think next time - instead of looking for crayfish - I might chip into it to see
It's in the bay itself so that would be South West of the shelf. About where the ski boats launch.
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I'll definitely be back and continue the search, hopefully I'll find gold!
May you strike gold one of these days!
The stones in your photo look more like agate stones than carnelian beads. Have a look here:
https://www.google.co.za/search?q=ag...HR_eD20QsAQIGQ
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Thanks Danie. I'm not sure excactly what it is, from the research I did, I believe it's carnelian beads, but I might be wrong. Any input is appreciated and also ideas to what it might be worth, not that I think it's worth much in terms of money. It's diamond shaped and with a hole drilled through it (-+ 1,5 mm in dia), I wonder how they drilled the hole through it.
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Even in the 1500's people knew black and decker wasnt in the quality league
But if its been drilled then that must have been valuable
Either as a currency or in necklace form
I think Durban or bluff area was bought from the local chief for a couple of necklaces and a black label
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