7/7/20 Report - Putting It Together: Waves, Liquefaction and Lenses. Kings Landing.

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Clark Little Photo of Wave.
Source: ClarkLittlePhotography.com.

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but they say a lot of things - don't they.  In this case, it might not be too far off.

They also say appearances are deceiving.  It looks to me like there might be a bit of a fisheye effect in this photo, but it is still amazing and informative.  Even if there is a fisheye effect, and I'm not sure there is, it still seems to show the sand being picked up with the water.  The surface of the sand right in front of the wave seems to curve up into it.

I've posted other pictures showing something similar, but there is also a lot of geology science that talks about things like liquefaction of sand and soil and how that happens, so we have both the pictures and scientific principles, which seem to support each other.

Source: Pinterest.

Liquefaction can be created by vibrations, which it seems you'd have on a beach with all of the breaking waves, but if that were not enough, I showed an illustration about a week ago that illustrates how passing waves cause liquefaction and water lenses.  I also have referred to how dock piers are set by a pressure hose pushing sand and earth apart so the pier can be inserted.  Putting that altogether, it looks like liquefaction could be one big ingredient that hasn't been talked about much in the metal detecting community to explain how sand and objects move on a beach.  In the past, it seemed that people just talked like sand and objects were simply pushed around somehow.  If you put this all together, I think you'll have a lot more understanding of how sand and other objects can move on the beach.  You'll also want to add what I've called trigger points.

A lot of times things are simply uncovered or washed down from the dunes, but I think the best metal detecting days are when the waves crash from the low tide zone and work their way all the way up until they crash against the dunes.  We usually can't see through the turbulent water to see how everything is moving, but the above photo might give you a pretty good idea.

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Find With Good Message.

I mentioned finding a cheap necklace not long ago.  It bears a good message.  It seems like every time out I've been finding some type of little turtle thingy.


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Exclusive Kings Landing Development Coming to Fort Pierce.

King's Landing, a new exclusive community is planned for marina area of Fort Pierce. 

Homeownership ranges from the mid-$400,000s to $1 million+. 

Charleston homes are two-story, three-bedroom and 3 1/2 bath residences.

Homeownership begins in the high $500,000s.

I've read that they are all reserved in advance.

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If I decided that the predominant culture in which I now live has evil roots and is pervasively evil and I should no longer support it and participate in it or what came from it, that would mean I'd no longer use the internet or computers, or the English language for that matter.  I'd have to burn my degrees and erase them from my vita.   And I'd have throw away antibiotics and other pharmaceutical products, to to China or someplace for medical care, give up hot dogs, Coca Cola, eye glasses, laser surgery, TV, airplane travel, air conditioning, Ford, Chevy and Tesla automobiles, the convenience of the water closet, my Wrangler jeans, and UF Gator shorts.  I'd even have to stop rooting for my football team, watching the NFL and basketball.  And that is just a beginning.

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Not much on the National Hurricane Center map today.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net

1/3/18 Report - Necklace Found and Returned. High Wind and Surf Decreasing Along Treasure Coast but Still Big Tides.

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Necklace Recovered and Returned.
Find and photo by Alberto S.

Here is another example of the type of good deeds done all the time by detectorists.  Alberto S. was able to find a necklace that was lost just the day before.  Here is how Alberto told me about that.

Happy New Year!

My last trip to the beach on the last day of the year provided an opportunity to do a good deed for a young girl who had lost a necklace. As I walked on to the beach with my metal detector she approached me and asked if I could help her find a necklace she had lost the day before, it was given to her by her brother after his return from New Zealand, so it meant a lot to her. Not knowing if it had any silver or gold I searched the area where she lost it with my CTX 3030 full screen no discrimination, after a couple of hits that turn out to be aluminum foil the third was very different and sure enough it was the necklace, total time invested about 5-10 minutes. This is the first time I help someone find a lost item so it was very special to me and of course she was very happy, as soon as I placed the necklace in her hand she said thank you with a big smile in her face and ran to show her father. The beach (John Brooks) did not provide any good targets after a couple of hours of metal detecting, no erosion just like you mentioned on your post from a day or so ago, but I did get a chance to meet and talk for a bit with another person that was metal detecting. 

My 2018 bring you many happy moments and good health to enjoy them.

Alberto S.

Thanks for the good deed Alberto.  It helps the metal detecting hobby when people know what detectorists do for the public.  Thanks for sharing.

Alberto also sent me some beach photos.  He was out a few hours after I was yesterday.

Turtle Trail Close To 2:30 Yesterday.
Photo by Alberto S.

Notice the other detectorists.

Another Photo From Turtle Tail Yesterday.
Photo by Alberto S.

This photo shows the same area I showed yesterday but about three hours later when the tide was lower.  You can see the bags again.  It appears that very little, if any, sand was lost between when I took my photo and when Alberto took this photo.  

I don't know what if anything happened last night.

Thanks again Alberto.

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As of this morning, the wind has stopped.  The tides are going to be big today - big high tide and nice negative low tide.

Below are the charts for the Fort Pierce area.

Source: MagicSeaWeed.com

The surf will be decreasing.

Source: MagicSeaWeed.com

It looks like there won't be much additional improvement to beach conditions.

Happy hunting,

TreasureGuide@comcast.net

3/18/16 Report - Most Popular Relic Detectors. More Rooms In King Tut's Tomb. Does Reliquary Hold King Erik's Remains?

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Three Most Popular Relic Detectors According To The Kellyco People's Choice Awards.

You see some common brand names here again.  I've owned and used all three of these brands but not these particular detectors.

My first detector was a Whites detector.  It was not waterproof.  My second detector was an Aquanaut 1280, which I used when I began hunting in the water.  It found a lot of gold for me, and I learned a lot during those days.

I once also owned a Garrett pulse detector, and I sold it before long.  I didn't understand pulse detectors at the time, so it wasn't necessarily the fault of the detector.  Since then I've owned many detectors, including a good number that were custom built.

If you are a relic hunter you are interested in the less common things and things that are not so easy to identify - the kind of thing that might be difficult to identify even when you hold it in your hand.  It reminds me of the old Orphan Annie decoder that I dug.  Or the crotal bell, or the three hundred year old copper Portuguese coin, or the ornate musket trigger guard.  No way you are going to have any system correctly identify those types of things for you. Relic hunting is definitely more of a dig everything kind of game.

A lot of people evidently approve of these three detectors for relic hunting.  That says something, even though the People's Choice Awards is not a scientific evaluation.  Of course, that also goes for the other categories from the PCA that I've covered in the past.

No matter what detector you get, you need to put your time in with it before you can learn to use it well.  Very often a person's favorite detector is the one they've spent the most time with and have learned to use the best.

It is very important to spend time experimenting and getting to know your detector.  I've posted my ideas on that in the past.

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The Treasure Coast beaches provide many types of treasure.  This fossilized nuchal turtle scute was found on a Treasure Coast beach and then drilled and transformed into a great necklace with the addition of a small silver turtle.

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Cairo (AFP) - Radar scans of the tomb of pharaoh Tutankhamun in the ancient necropolis of Luxor showed a "90 percent" chance of two hidden chambers, possibly containing organic material, Egypt's antiquities minister said Thursday.

Experts had scanned the tomb to find what a British archaeologist believes could be the resting place of Queen Nefertiti, the legendary beauty and wife of Tutankhamun's father whose mummy has never been found...

Here is the link for more.

http://news.yahoo.com/scans-show-90-chance-hidden-chambers-tutankhamun-tomb-092631296.html;_ylt=AwrXnCAtr.pWs0EANo_QtDMD;_ylu=X3oDMTByMjR0MTVzBGNvbG8DZ3ExBHBvcwM3BHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNzcg

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The preserved legend says that Erik was chosen to be king, ruled fairly, was a devoted Christian, led a crusade against Finland, and supported the Church. He was killed in 1160, in his tenth year of rule, by a Danish claimant to the throne. His remains have rested in a reliquary since 1257.

A thorough analysis of the skeleton in the reliquary was conducted in 1946, but the availability of new methods of analysis motivated a new examination in 2014. On 23 April 2014, the reliquary was opened at a ceremony in Uppsala Cathedral. After this, researchers from several scientific disciplines set to work running tests on the remains in an attempt to learn more about the medieval king. Now, the first results of these examinations are made public...

Here is the link for the rest of that article.

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-03/uu-ssn031616.php

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The weather has been beautiful lately.  Nice easy surf for water hunting and wonderful for sun bathing.  Not so great for digging up old stuff at the beach.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net

6/7/15 Report - A Treasure Coast Fossil. Blog Demographics. Item Tracking App. Darlington Digital Research Library. Lost Mine.

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Fossil Turtle Scute Necklace.

The Treasure Coast offers a variety of types of treasures.  I occasionally mention the fossils that can be found on Treasure Coast beaches.

Here is a nice fossil turtle scute found on the Treasure Coast that was drilled and turned into a necklace by somebody.

I think she has it for sale on Etsy now.

Nice use of a found object!

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I took a look at the Google demongraphics for this blog.  I was a bit surprised.  I always assumed that at least 90 percent of the readers are male.   According to Google that is way off.  They say it is only 54 percent male.  The vast majority, not all, of the emails I receive about the blog are from males, and most of the detectorists I see on the beach are male,  I find the Google numbers hard to believe, but maybe that is how it is.

The second surprise I received was the age groups.  I once did a poll in this blog and from the responents to the blog poll indicated that on average they were an older group.  I can't find the poll results right now so I can't give the specific numbers, but here is what Google is showing.

That is certainly younger than I would have expected.  Again, it doesn't match my personal observations of the people I see detecting on the beach, however I do tend to go at times when a lot of younger people could not or would not go, and maybe also when females might not go alone.

Maybe I'll do another poll.  Maybe the detecting population has changed over the past few years. Numbers, as they say, can be deceiving.

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Finally! A smartphone app that impresses me as being useful.  It is called TrackR.  You can put small TrackR devices on items that you want to be able to find and use it with a smartphone application that will tell you the location of the item.  Here is how it is advertised.

You can put your TrackR device on luggage, wallet, cell phone, pets, child's backpack or whatever.

If the people that got robbed yesterday at John Brooks had one of the tags in the duffle bag that was stolen, they would have been able to find the thieves real quick - if they still had their smart phone.

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I just ran across a great collection of digitized old history books, maps, manuscripts and images.  It is the Darlington Digital Research Library of the University of Pittsburgh.

Here is the main link.  http://digital.library.pitt.edu/d/darlington/

This collection is truly a treasure for anyone interested in U. S. History.  One of the books in his digital collection, which just happened to be the first that I looked at, is entitled Settlers of Northwest Virginia by McWhorter et al.  That book provides great reading for any history buff, but is also a great resource for good detecting leads.  It also talked about early settlers who discovered long abandoned camps and artifacts and investigated them with the same interest that you or I might exhibit today  Of course there were descriptions of battles and other adventures of the day, primarily the late 1700s, but one gem that I found in that book was a discussion of a lost mine and buried treasure.  Copies of messages on stone markers were shown along with a copy of a crude map showing the lost mine.  I'd love to investigate that if I was up there more.

The mine is referred to in the book as the Trans-Allegheny lost mine.  I am skeptical as always, but it seems the authors are respected historians.   Maybe the lost treasure exists or doesn't, and maybe it has been found.   But it only took me a short time to find a fascinating lead like that.

The same book has the following intriguing paragraph.

I haven't began to scratch the surface of this library, but I mention it to remind you that there are plenty of good research resources to be found online these days.  If you get tired of hunting the beaches, there is a great diversion or a while.  I'm sure you can find good research materials for Florida treasures too if you are so inclined.

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It looks like we have another week very much like last week.  A one to two foot surf is predicted for the Treasure Coast for several days again.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net