8/14/18 Report - Safe Containing Valuables Dug Up In Back Yard. Photographic History of the U. S. Navy. Lost Pin-pointer and Scoop.

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

Source: See RD.com link below.

In the past few months, I reported on a couple of caches found in Florida.  You can still find caches.  I reported on a couple just yesterday. Here is another.

The following excerpts are from article about a stolen safe containing valuables from a robbery that was found in a yard, dug up and returned to the owners.

When trees in their yard were damaged by wildlife they got a better view. "It [the box] was really prominent when the deer ate away all the foliage," Matthew said.

After digging it up they realized it was a rusty old safe. Inside they found wet money, and a lot of jewelry in plastic bags.

"Hundreds, jewelry, diamonds, engagement ring. Dozens of rings, gold with jade. It was stunning," said Matthew.

There was also a piece of paper with an address -- one of their neighbors.

"First, I knocked on the door and I asked them if they were ever robbed and they said they were," Matthew said.

According to the New York Police Department, a burglary was reported at their neighbors' home the day after Christmas in 2011. The only thing taken was the safe. It had a large amount of cash, jewelry and other items inside: a total of $52,000 worth of property, police said...

And here is the link for the rest of the article.

https://www.rd.com/true-stories/haunted-bodies-of-water/

As I've said before, not all caches are found in treasure chests.  In fact few are, but this one was found in a safe.

I also commented before that you don't usually need a two-box detector some type of super metal detector to find a cache.  This safe was sticking out of the ground.  It wasn't ten feet deep.

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I want to recommend a web site today: navsource.org.  NavSource provide a photographic history of the U. S. Navy.  It is run by volunteers who do a fantastic job.

You can find pictures of many of the 20,000 registered U. S. Navy ships.  I contributed a few photographs, including the one below.

You might have a few of your own that you want to contribute.  Maybe you got some from your father or grandfather.

Life on the YMS 250 Near Lavorno Italy During WW II.

The YMS 250 shown above was a wood-hulled minesweeper that crossed both the Atlantic and Pacific.  Minesweepers cleared the way for the larger ships.

At the top of the above photo, you see a sunken Italian destroyer.  Also notice the dog sleeping at the base of the three-inch gun

You'll find additional information, including how to submit photos, on the web site.

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A Garrett Carrot pin-pointer and handmade scoop was left in the sand at the base of the Wabasso boardwalk recently.  Dan B. would like it back if anyone found it or knows of its whereabouts.  Email DanielB0330@gmail.com.

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The disturbance that has been hanging around in the middle of the Atlantic and bringing us southeast winds isn't going anywhere fast.  It has increased in strength a little and drifted farther south.

On the Treasure Coast we still have a calm surf, and we're still having some nice low tides.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net

10/11/13 Report - Veteran's Day, Early St. Lucie County Settlement Finds & More Surf Coming

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

Thanks to all the Veterans.

The Wooden Minesweeper My Departed Father Crossed Both Oceans On As a Teenager During WW II.

Their motto:  Where the fleet goes, we have been.

Stoneware Ink Bottle & Bone Handle Knife
Photo and Finds by Kenneth H.

Before the beach got stirred up I posted part of an email from Kenneth H. in which he told us about his experiences at early St. Lucie settlement sites.

Here is a photo of one of his finds and what he said about them.

... out of the dump came three complete stoneware items. 1) the ink w/ bone-handled pocket knife fused to its side by what appears to be pitch (pine tar) for sealing roofs and boats. The second two items, not photographed was a shallow, round cold cream-like container complete with a cover. The third item was a stoneware ale, beer or ginger-beer type of a bottle with "1848" molded into the side near its base.

Here is some more from Kenneth that you'll find interesting.

...2014 marks the 45th year I have hunted the treasure coast. I recall the old restaurant north of the inlet with a single food bar. Wagner's Spanish relics, swords and such were mounted on the wall behind the cook. Saw it first in 1969 when it was free to camp anywhere along the inlet, and we did just that. Wish it could have been kept that way and wish beach development never happened between Vero & Sebastian. Once upon a time, it was all so beautiful and the beaches were quite isolated.

Thanks for sharing Kenneth.

As eager as we are on the Treasure Coast to see a little storm activity, we need to remember how devastating storms can be.   Here is a link to a story and some photos of the super storm that hit the Philippines.

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/11/09/world/asia/philippines-typhoon-haiyan/index.html?hpt=hp_t1



Here are some of the highlights of the most recently completed SedwickCoins auction from receive via email from SedwickCoins.com.

* Part II of the New England Collection of Brazilian gold coins, its key piece being a 1750 Bahia 3200 Reis that sold for a record price of $49,938.

* Over a dozen round "Royal" cobs that sold for as much as 5 figures each, plus an 8-reales "Heart" that sold for $56,400, the first of several lots that rallied a round of applause from the attendees.

* A fantastic showing in gold cobs with strong prices for high-quality Mexico and Lima pieces, including a 1703 Lima 8 escudos that sold for $47,000.

* A complete sellout in shipwreck ingots, coins and artifacts, featuring a bronze cannon that sold for $49,938, a gold rosary that sold for $71,700, and a gold "dragon whistle" (Captain's badge of office) that sold for $49,938.

* The largest-ever single offering of silver coins from colonial Santo Domingo, which saw an unprecedented level of participation from serious numismatists with multiple decades of experience and knowledge.




Please don't write and ask me where you should go or where things are being found.  I tell you as much as I can in this blog without being unfair to others.  There are several things that I don't want to happen. For one thing, I don't want everyone running out to the same beach.   i was told one time after mentioning a beach, that it looked like I-95 because there were so many detectorists running up and down it.

Another thing is I don't want to be unfair to those who found sites on their own.   Third, I don't know all the sites where things are being found anyhow, and I wouldn't want to send you one place when there might be others that are better.  And fourth, I don't want to take ALL of the challenge of the hunt out of it for you.

I give you a lot of information and clues.  Use them to the max.  Read carefully, use your head, and make a your best effort.   But you have to put it together and make it happen yourself, othewise you won't get the full satisfaction of success.  There are a few who lucked out early, but most o fus had to work for a while before we had any success.  That is the way it usually is.


It is now time to take advantage of the decreasing surf.  You'll be able to work farther down at low tide.  If you've already worked the main treasure beaches, think about looking around, working the secondary sites or the border areas.

The surf is decreasing for a couple of days, but increasing again Wednesday and up to seven feet again Thursday, if the predictions are correct.  That is as high as last week when the beaches starte to produce.  So it is possible we will have a repeat.  Of course it is also possible that it won't work out as well, depending upon other factors, such as the direction of wind and waves.

Another thing to notice in the predictions is there will be another decrease in the surf after Thursday, but then another increase up to seven feet again in a few more days.  Again, that is if the predictions are correct.

We've already had a nice period of higher surf and these predictions for repeated high surf is encouraging.  There could be a cumulative effect.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net

11/1/10 Report - More Sand & Gold Bird From 1715 Fleet Video

Shipwreck Beach South of Fort Pierce This Morning.

The St. Lucie County beaches didn't look very good this morning as you can see from the photo. A lot of sand accumulated on the front beach, which was at some spots very mushy.

I did see one beach that had a very small cut and had a hard packed front, but the sand was still piled pretty high and there weren't many targets.

The water got up to the base of the larger cut that occurred some time ago and the more recent cut was washed over.

If you haven't seen it, here is the ABC coverage of the Fort Pierce gold bird (Pelican in Her Piety) find from the Nieves site.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/video/sunken-ship-yields-gold-treasure-in-florida-11996287

It doesn't look exactly like a pelican but if you look at the stylized images that follow you can see that many bear a striking resemblance to the found bird.

http://search.aol.com/aol/image?q=pelican in her piety&v_t=keyword_rollover

I suspect that besides the missing wing, there are other items that would accompany this artifact that hasn't been found yet.

I've posted a lot about sunken ships, of course, but I just had a new experience. I watched a video taken by divers on a sunken ship that for a while I thought my deceased father served on in WWII. It was a small wood minesweeper that literally went around the world and crossed both the Atlantic and Pacific. Wherever the big ships were headed, the minesweepers had already been.

The ship in the video turned out to not be the one my father served, on but was very similar, yet for those few moments of watching the divers video the ship, I couldn't help but thinking about my father once walking the deck of that sunken ship.

As it turns out, he didn't, but other young men, most of whom are now gone, did. That experience was a very personal and moving experience for me, and it reminded me that all of those sunken ships, no matter how long ago they sailed, were once manned by real people with families and dreams. Maybe we should take a moment to really remember and appreciate that fact when we pick up a coin or an artifact on a beach. Remember that those objects are more than simply lumps of wood, iron, silver or gold.

Here is the link if you want to see the video of that sunken ship.

http://www.pugetsounddivers.com/journal/2010/10/2/wwii-minesweeper-yms-105-gypsy-queen.html

Forecast and Conditions.

As I mentioned above, the beaches that I saw today didn't look very good. I don't know if the beaches up north are any better. I suspect not, but I don't know.

The high tides are still nice and high, and the wind is now out of the northeast.

It looks like seas will run about four feet through the week. That isn't very promising, but next weekend it looks like we might get some action. The surf web sites are predicting 7.5 foot seas on Saturday. If that actually happens it could get good - depending upon other factors, of course.

That's it for now.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net