Tuesday, August 29, 2017

8/29/17 Report - Treasure Coast Beach Conditions. Civil War Submarine. Peru's History. Snooping. Tropical Storm Situation.


Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.

John Brooks Beach This Morning Just Before Low Tide.

I took a look at a few beaches this morning to see what was going on.  As you can see from the picture above, the surf was near flat.

High Tie Line Showing Shells Pushed Up By Recent High Tide.

Mushy Beach Front North of John Brooks.

John Brooks Looking North.
The beaches in the area of John Brooks were mushy.  In the above picture you can see the old cut and the new lighter colored sand that accumulated in front of the cut.

Detectorist This Morning At Fredreck Douglas.

This detectorist got caught by the Treasure Guide Cam this morning around low tide.

Overall, beach detecting conditions remain poor.

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Researchers say they’ve solved one of the most enduring mysteries of the American Civil War: what caused the puzzling demise of the H.L. Hunley, the first combat submarine in history to sink an enemy warship...
It looks like the explosion that sank the USS Housatonic could have also been responsible for the sinking of the Hunley.
Here is the link for more about that.

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Archaeologists exploring Peru’s pre-Colombian past recently unearthed a glimpse of a less prominent chapter in the Andean country’s history - the remains of 16 Chinese labourers who toiled in the country over 100 years ago...

Here is that link.

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Google’s trademark mobile phone may be appropriately named, the “Android.” Some privacy experts warn that consumers are being spied on, fleeced by intrusive advertisers, and their whereabouts tracked, all through cell phones.
Android phone users beware.
Google has effectively turned millions of its users’ smartphones into listening devices that can record and store conversations not meant for Google’s ears...
Here is that link.
http://www.wnd.com/2017/08/how-google-secretly-records-your-private-conversations/print/

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Source: nhc.noaa.gov
Harvey is going to go north, as is Ten.  The one that has the best chance of affecting us is still over by the Canary Islands.

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Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net