3/29/18 Report - Thursday Beach Conditions. Bag Found. Contents Revealed. Decreasing Surf.

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Bag Found Washed Up On Beach This Morning.

I went out to take a look at a couple beaches this morning and found the bag shown above.  I could see it was full, but bags always fill up with sand, if nothing else.  I hoped that it was full of something other than sand, but not something stolen, gruesome or illegal.  That remained to be seen.  The zipper wouldn't work, so I cut the bag open.  I'll show the reveal below.

 I always check bags or any sort.  You never know what you might find inside.  They usually fill with sand, and that is often all you'll find, however people do occasionally put better things in bags.  I've found both money and jewelry in lost bags.  

John Brooks Beach Thursday Morning.

Here is what John Brooks looked like Thursday Morning.  Some scallops.  The surf had pushed some pieces of shell back towards the dunes.

Beach Showing Where a Nice Cut Was Tuesday.

Tuesday I showed the same area shown above.   Below you can see what the same spot looked like Tuesday morning.  Today's picture was taken from a greater distance.

Same Spot Tuesday.

 On Tuesday there was a nice four or five foot high cut.  That cut was gone today.  Now there was only a very small cut to the west of the previous cut.

The cut disappeared and so did the targets.   Too bad!  That was the type of beach I really enjoy detecting.

Below you some some peat that had washed up.  It was there Tuesday too.  That was a promising sign.

Peat on Beach.

When I got home I wanted to find out what was in the bag, so I cut along the seam by the zipper.

Bag Cut Open.

Well there is something in the bag other than sand.  I see rubber worms and some plastic envelopes.  There could still be something good in there.

Contents of Bag.

Nope.  Not such a good Easter find this time.  Nothing in the bag except for rubber bait worms.  Ten bags at $3.29 a piece.

I don't know who was planning on doing so much fishing, but it looks like I won't be buying any rubber worms for a while.

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I have some more to post on the report of the lot that was sifted as well as detected.  I also some other stories to post.  Also some explanation of what happened to the Tuesday cut.

Thursday's 5 - 8 foot surf will decrease to 3 - 5 for Good Friday and decrease even more for the weekend.  The tides are not bad.

We might get another chance at improved conditions in a few days.


Happy hunting.
TreasureGuide@comcast.net

8/1/16 Report - Peat On Estuarine Beaches and Numerous Old Finds by GoldNugget. Storm Forming In Caribbean.

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North Carolina Beach Showing Peat and Stubble.
Photo by GoldNugget.

 Peat is something you might see on estuarine beaches.

That is from Estuarine Beaches by Karl Malstrom..

Below is a closer view.

Closer View of Same Beach
Photo by GoldNugget

This area produced a lot of nice old finds that you will see below.

Silver Dollar, Large Cent, Flying Eagle Cent, etc.
Photo by Gold Nugget

And here are more finds shown individually, all found and photographed by GoldNugget.

Great finds!  Thanks for sharing!

Coins and other metal items buried in organic material will often heavily corrode due to the acidic nature of the ground.

There are some places along the Treasure Coast where peat is buried under the sand of the dunes. Fossils can be found there.

There was a time back a few decades ago when I saw a lot of old tree stumps in the water north of Colored Beach.

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There is a good chance that a storm will develop south of Jamaica later today.  That is something to keep watching.

The surfing web sites are still predicting only one or two foot surf on the Treasure Coast for a week or so.  That could change.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net

8/7/15 Report - What I Can't Tell You. Beach Deconstruction and Peat. Prehistoric Tobacco.

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1200 Year Old Tobacco Pouches.
Source:  See link below.

When I first started this blog I didn't do much other than give my beach detecting conditions report.  Then I started to add additional information and some of my thoughts.  I'm not a very talkative person, and normally tend to use few words.  If you would have asked me back when I just started this blog, I would have not thought that it possible to have so many posts without running out of things to talk about, but it seems there is always something new to talk about.  I don't copy or repeat what other people are saying.  In fact I don't generally read other metal detecting literature unless I am looking for something specific.  The funny thing is that it hasn't been hard finding something to say, the hard thing, especially lately, is that I know about so much exciting that I can't tell you about.  Not just one thing or place either.  There is a lot going on - both on the Treasure Coast and around the state.  I know I won't be able to tell about some of them, but I hope I'll be able to share at least some of those things very soon.

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Here is an email I received from Joe D.

Hello again,

   ...I have been enjoying; (among others)  your beach deconstruction and surf interpretation posts!

Detecting time for me this summer has been hard to come by due to family, and the summertime heat! I just returned from the family vacation and had some pics to post from a South Carolina Beach that had a long history and interesting conditions!

I will include a few other pics! Keep up the great posts!

This pic shows an initial sand layer at the high tide mark that gives way to a peat-like layer, then sand again, then a heavy clay layer that reminded me of the layer that the recent treasure coast gold coins were found in! While searching this area, I found many rusted items and  a broken french wine bottle that I dated to around 1846! I wish I had more time there! But it's back to reality! 

Here are the beach pics...

Clumps of Clay From This Beach.

Thanks for the great photos Joe.  Interesting to study.

There are some interesting dips and a lot of places for coins and things to get trapped.  When you see vegetation getting washed away, try to figure out how long the vegetation and ground right under it has been undisturbed.  Sometimes it will be a very long time and other times the vegetation might be new.

I always watch for exposed roots on the back beach, which can be a good sign of erosion and would definitely check out anything like that.

Peat has been exposed on one Treasure Coast beach a few years back.

In the beach illustration that I posted a day or so ago, you can see the underlying peat illustrated.

The way it is illustrated here, erosion below the high tide line could expose it.

Here is a cool related picture from the following linked web site.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2564285/5-000-year-old-forest-unearthed-storms-Beach-washed-away-reveal-ancient-oaks-pines.html

Back a couple of decades ago there was bunch of stumps much like these exposed along the water line north of John Brooks.

I think some  things are colored black by peat along the Treasure Coast including many of the fossils that were being exposed back a few years ago.

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The first week of August back a few decades ago I discovered my first escudo.  That was one of my best hunting weekends ever.  Also found a U. S. gold coin the same weekend, which happened to be my Birthday weekend.

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Here is the link to the story about the prehistoric tobacco pouches found in an Arizona cave.

http://westerndigs.org/1200-year-old-pouches-found-in-arizona-cave-contain-prehistoric-chewing-tobacco-study-finds/

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Nothing new about Treasure Coast beach conditions yet.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net