Written by TreasureGuide exclusively for treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.
Three Big Atocha Finds For This Year. Photo and information received from the Mel Fisher organization via email.
Shown in the photo is a gold rosary valued at over $250,000, part of a 2-pound gold bar valued at over $100,000, and high quality 9-carat emerald ring valued at over $1.2 million.
The Pirate Festival will be held in Stuart this weekend.
Anyone wanting to participate in a group hunt in the Port St. Lucie area this weekend, contact Bernie C.
The St. Lucie Metal Detecting club will also hold a hunt in on Sept 17th. Contact Bernie for information. I've listed his email and phone in past blogs. If you don't have it, use the search box on the blog.
The most recent blog survey has concluded and the results are in.
As a result of Hurricane Irene, 22% of the respondents traveled to the Treasure Coast to detect. I met some of those people on the beaches. One came from the West Coast of Florida and one from the Panhandle.
A number of people detected a few more days and visited a few more beaches than usual (17 & 23% respectively).
A good number of people (43%) didn't do anything different. Irene just didn't turn out to be a very big deal after all. The beaches weren't affected that much.
And 5% of the respondents actually detected less than normal. That could have been for a number of reasons - maybe hurricane preparation and other duties, or poor weather, or simply the fact that not much happened to the beaches. Maybe some traveled north to where the hurricane was more of a factor.
I always like to get data.
If you've been watching the track of Maria, she is now a tropical storm again. It looks like she'll track pretty much like Irene.
Some Treasure Coast Ceramic Finds.Here are some eye-balled ceramic finds. Items like the doll and doll parts sell quickly.
If you keep your eyes open while detecting you can find a few items that will help pay for gas and batteries.
I've found a dozen or two of the long elongated objects that you see on the left. I don't know what they are. I think they might have to do with old gas lighting fixtures.
If you know what they are, please let me know. Thanks.
If you have a high quality camera sometimes you can see things on a large photo of an object that you didn't notice visually. Good photos might help you detect previously undetected markings.
Porcelain doll parts are especially easy to sell.
The small doll in this photo is marked "MADE IN OCCUPIED JAPAN."
Anyhow, once again, keep your eyes open while detecting.
Treasure Coast Beach Detecting Conditions.
The highest waves yesterday were at the north end of the Treasure Coast. I heard that Indialantic had huge waves, and Frank G. reported very high waves up at Sebastian, but nothing in the way of cuts.
I really appreciate reports from the various parts of the Treasure Coast because, as you know, I can't be everywhere.
The wind is still form the west. The seas are decreasing. This weekend seas will be two feet or less. That, with the west wind, means you might be able to get out into the low tide zone pretty far to see what if anything got stirred up the last couple of days.
The waves at John Books were breaking close to shore. You could tell there was a lot of sand built up in front of the beach where the waves were crashing.
The water got up pretty high but not high high enough to wash old objects out of the dunes, which, as you know, are protected by renourishment sand at many sites.
I plan to talk more about the dunes some day soon.
Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net
