I didn’t know you were a detectorist! Lucky if I've been out with mine half a dozen times since I bought the thing years ago.
Know what you mean about the sand though....I'm waiting for it to pull back so I can get a look at the Mesolithic human footprints at Bondicar, still never seen them, and.... there's a couple of coal seams I've become aware of (to photograph not dig!) but again these have been buried under sand for ages.
Amble beach with the sand back: