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One Typical Treasure Coast Beach This Morning.As most of you know, we are waiting for those big seas that have been predicted. According to the predictions the seas are supposed to start increasing today. I went out this morning near low tide to take a peek to see what was happening, and as you can see from the photo above, it hadn't started yet. The seas were a little rougher, perhaps, but not much. I suspect that they'll increase as the day goes along and as the tide comes in.
You can see the sea weed on the beach. On the front beach was fresh light green sea weed. And on the back beach was old sea weed. That tells you two things. First, the beach is adding sand right now. Second, the last high tide did not get as far back on the beach as the previous high tide that left that old sea weed.
Below is a photo of another beach taken just a few minutes later than the first photo. This beach has a steeper front, but you can see the new sea weed there too.
Another Treasure Coast Beach This Morning.The waves were hitting the beach directly, which usually results in new sand being piled up rather than eroded. Hopefully the wind and wave direction will change over the next few days. As you know, size isn't everything. The direction of the waves is very important in determining the amount of erosion.
As a quick aside for those of you who are bi-coastal, Fort Myers beach is being replenished.
A large amount of cocaine washed up on the beach just south of the Fort Pierce inlet yesterday morning at Kimberly Bergalis Park.
Yesterday I mentioned Ruck's Pit and the rare fossil clams that are found there. Nelson A. wrote in and said it looks like Ruck's Pit is now closed to the public.
Here is a link.
http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php/topic/23533-rucks-pit-closed-for-good/
The surf prediction for Fort Pierce is holding steady. Eight foot seas are predicted for Saturday with little change through Monday, but then quickly dropping on Tuesday. That would give us almost three days of near eight foot seas. At some point during that period, we should get a shift of wind and some nice erosion - at least I hope so.
As for the Sebastian area, the surf web sites are predicting 11.5 foot seas for Saturday, dropping off a foot or so on Sunday and then jumping up to 12.5 foot seas on Monday. Now that should be high enough to do something. Tuesday things are expected to get calmer up there too.
As I write this I notice that the weather has changed from earlier this morning. The wind has picked up and I'm pretty sure that the waves have too, even though I can't see them.
Here is an article about the significance of ancient trash.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/04/world/europe/archaeology-ancient-trash/
It looks like the predicted waves are on the way.
Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net
