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| John Brooks Beach Thursday Morning. |
I checked some beaches this morning. John Brooks showed some small cuts, which evidently happened last night.
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| John Brooks Beach Thursday Morning. |
Blind Creek had been nicely eroded some time in the not too distant past. Unfortunately I missed that. Today was too late.
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| Blind Creek Beach Thursday Morning. |
Fort Pierce South Jetty was mostly poor with the exception of a short area to the north that looked better.
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| Fort Pierce South Jetty Beach Thursday Morning. |
I'm not expecting much more improvement in beach conditions despite the larger surf that is predicted. The wind will be shifting more to the south.
I stumbled on some fun and interesting comments concerning the Oak Island TV show on reddit. Here is one that echoes much of what I've said.
Curse of Oak Island has shown us a definite pattern.
Allow 'Metal Detection Expert' Gary Drayton find an interesting item or two. Last year, for example, the items included the brooch and the Tanit cross. This year it is another brooch and the Roman pilum.
The pattern:
-- Have Metal Detection Expert Gary Drayton immediately announce his assumption as to what the item is, what it consists of, and its age.
-- Call Rick.
-- Salivate over it in the War Room.
-- Hire an "expert" to say exactly what they want them to say.
-- Squeeze two or three episodes (or maybe more) out of it.
-- Include a photo of it in the show's intro as if it is some great discovery.
But the biggest thing... is it gets us arguing back and forth about the actual nature of the item and takes our focus off what we should really be looking at... the hunt for treasure!
As Dan Blankenship said in last Season's finale', as the Team sat around the Table of Pathetic, "These are just surface finds! They're leading you no closer to finding out if there's treasure on Oak Island!"
(Of course, this quote was bastardized, taken completely out of context, and used in promos for the finale', as producers clipped it to show Dan exclaiming: "... There's treasure on Oak Island!") (but I digress)
Example: They say it's Roman, they hire an "expert" to say it's Roman, and it forever becomes "Roman". Meanwhile, we do more research than the "Oak Island Team" or any UFO writer has done, and we can just about prove it isn't what the "expert" says it is.
Another classic example of this is a couple of Seasons ago when a rather obvious railroad spike was confidently pronounced by "Dr" Lori, to be a "decking nail from the Spanish Galleon". (Which just coincidentally (wink, wink) matched up with the outlandish theory of a Spanish Galleon being purposely sunk between the "two" Oak Islands, followed by the "two" islands being merged into one.)
Regardless, whether this new item is actually a pilum, a crossbow bolt, a frog gig, a property marker, etc, etc.... IT DOESN'T REALLY MATTER!
Even if we assume it is a Roman pilum... BIG DEAL! It was found near the shore at Lot 26. Is that leading them to buried treasure in the Money Pit area (or anywhere else, for that matter)?
Will excavation at Smith's Cove lead them closer to buried treasure?
Will searching through spoils lead them closer to buried treasure?
Don't get caught up in all the bull. Don't get hooked by a fishing hook which "looks like it was used to haul large chests on ships".
Here is the link.
https://www.reddit.com/r/OakIsland/comments/a41qo2/roman_pilum_or_not_dont_get_hooked/
There are some other humorous ones.
submitted by Bill0Rights
https://www.reddit.com/r/OakIsland/comments/a39j2h/could_it_be_that_the_possible_crossbow_bolt_found/
I had some readers that crossbow bolt was actually something else. It sure didn't look like the examples I saw.
Seems like the "experts" don't have a lot of credibility with the viewers and for many the show is becoming a not too entertaining comedy. There are many posts and comments about the show out there. It does get viewers, but many are unimpressed by their misspent viewing time.
Here are a couple more to read.
https://www.reddit.com/r/OakIsland/comments/a1cep6/what_exactly_did_jack_and_gary_unearth/
https://www.andywhiteanthropology.com/blog/category/oak-island
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| Source: MagicSeaWeed.com. |
It looks like the surf will not be quite as high as expected earlier, but worse yet, the winds won't be favorable.
Happy hunting,
Treasureguide@comcast.net
