Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.
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| Frederick Douglas Beach About 11 AM Monday Morning. |
I looked at a good sample of Treasure Coast beaches this morning. Later as the tides came in the water began to get high up on the beach, as you can see from the above photo. I hadn't seen it that high in quite some time - maybe since Sandy.
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| Dolman Beach Dunes Getting Hit About 11 AM |
The dunes were being eroded at Dolman beach at around 11 AM. The problem is that it was recently renourished and all you see is renourishment sand.
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| John Brooks Beach This Morning. |
At John Brooks, like man other beaches, there was seaweed or other light stuff that had washed up on the beach. You can see both plastic and seaweed in the above photo. The wet beach was mushy.
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| John Brooks Beach This Morning. |
In this picture of John Brooks you can see that dunes that are behind the berm are getting eroded even though there is no erosion to the front beach.
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| Rio Mar This Morning. |
Rio Mar was typical. Sandy with no erosion and a lot of seaweed.
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| Seagrape Trail This Morning. |
I took this picture to show how the steps at Seagrape Trail are deep in sand.
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| Wabasso This Morning. |
There was nothing new or remarkable at Wabasso this morning. There were some decent surfing waves.
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| Turtle Trail This Morning. |
I got my pictures mixed up. I'm not sure if this is Turtle Trail or Seagrape Trail but it doesn't matter much because they were similar. There was no significant erosion at either. The blue bags were almost completely covered below Turtle Trail.
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| Seagrape Trail. |
You can see how soft the sand is from how deep the tire tracks are.
To summarize, I saw almost no erosion. The water had hit the base of the dunes last night and eroded that a touch, but it was mostly renourishment sand anyhow. The water was getting high on the beaches as high tide was coming and I would bet that there will be more dune erosion at certain locations. The swells were still hitting the beaches straight on, so unless that changes I don't expect any serious beach erosion. I would be interested in checking where the water got into the dunes.
I'm tired. That is all for now.
Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net
