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| Large (Approx. 7 ft. long) Fender(?) On Beach. |
I saw this item rolling in the surf Friday. The size, I would guess, is about 3 - 4 feet high (as it lies) and about seven feet from end to end. From how it moved I would guess it is empty. It does have metal eyes on each end. I didn't get real close to it, but it looked like it might be made of a thick, but hollow, flexible rubber like material, and the ends had a yellowish color, looking like brass or bronze. I'm guessing it is a large boat fender or air bag. It looks more heavy-duty than anything I've found online so far. What do you think?
As of late Friday afternoon, from the few beaches that I saw, it looked like the wind and surf had not yet improved beach conditions significantly.
The cut at John Brooks looked like it was being recut, but the cut was not nearly as big as it was when I increased my beach conditions rating to a two.
The beach in front of the cut was soft and mushy.
The front beach at Frederick Douglass appeared to be building.
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A couple days ago GC was working the shell line at Fort Pierce South Jetty and picked up the usual light stuff along with an interesting EO, which is circled in the photo of finds in the photo below.
Here is how he described it.
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| John Brooks Friday Afternoon. |
As of late Friday afternoon, from the few beaches that I saw, it looked like the wind and surf had not yet improved beach conditions significantly.
The cut at John Brooks looked like it was being recut, but the cut was not nearly as big as it was when I increased my beach conditions rating to a two.
The beach in front of the cut was soft and mushy.
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| John Brooks Friday Afternoon. |
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| Frederick Douglass Beach Friday Afternoon. |
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| Frederick Douglass Beach Friday Afternoon. |
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A couple days ago GC was working the shell line at Fort Pierce South Jetty and picked up the usual light stuff along with an interesting EO, which is circled in the photo of finds in the photo below.
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Wednesday Objects From the Shell Line
Photo by GC.
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Here is how he described it.
Went to FP South Jetty Park on Wed. I see that the dune is cut back further than I have ever seen, but not as tall and vertical. So I guess any goodies are still buried under the renourishment. Lots of shells, and that shell line is where I dug up a curious object 2-3 inches in deep in sand.
It gave off a
very loud signal on my highly technical BH Time Ranger. All I did at the time was check it with my magnet because it was quite heavy. Not at all magnetic. Checked again at home with stronger magnet. Nope. When I tried, perhaps too vigorously, to chip off some of the encrusted material it broke, pretty much in half. The inside material appeared to be carbon, maybe charcoal like substance, in all appearances. and properties. I certainly have no level of expertise in identifying artifacts, but it occurs to me that it is a container or flask of some kind, possibly made of lead. In cross section an outer layer of some metallic substance, and what could possibly be a neck. That is my best guess to explain the heaviness and that layer. There are 2 areas, marked A and B, located within the outer layer, that appear to be shiny and metallic. They could be the inside surface of the container. But A has a very definite circular edge that seems quite different from B. I'm guessing that it was either round, and flattened somehow, or was a very thin, maybe pocket sized thing. The round thought is based on seeing what appears to be a crack at the outside edge in vertical photos.
Any thoughts, ideas, guesses, would be greatly appreciated...
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Two Views of EO
Find and photo by GC.
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You know you are getting old when -
you can't even remember the last time anyone asked about your schooling or occupation, which seemed so important at one time.
you are the only one who remembers the times, places and events of your childhood days.
the only people your age, or near it, that still look half way good are unrecognizable because of an extremely talented plastic surgeon.
you know more dead people than living.
you remember a day when the people you knew seemed to be united by a common view of things.
you realize that you were once just as stupid as you were young.
you realize that you didn't understand what your elders were going through and perhaps weren't as kind and considerate as you should have been.
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You know you are getting old when -
you can't even remember the last time anyone asked about your schooling or occupation, which seemed so important at one time.
you are the only one who remembers the times, places and events of your childhood days.
the only people your age, or near it, that still look half way good are unrecognizable because of an extremely talented plastic surgeon.
you know more dead people than living.
you remember a day when the people you knew seemed to be united by a common view of things.
you realize that you were once just as stupid as you were young.
you realize that you didn't understand what your elders were going through and perhaps weren't as kind and considerate as you should have been.
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The wind was still blowing early Saturday morning but shifted. It now is coming more from the south. That means a change in how the beach was forming.
The surf will peak about 9 AM, just after low tide.
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| Source: MagicSeaWeed.com |
Like I said, I'm not increasing my beach conditions rating, but I haven't seen the Vero/Sebastian beaches, so could be missing something. As of yesterday afternoon, the South Hutchinson Island beaches that I saw weren't encouraging.
Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net
