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Shallow Water Sand Spit |
In the above photo, there is a sand spit that runs from the bottom right of the photo to near the top center of the photo. I'll outline that below.
Also there was water hitting the spit from two directions. I'll also try to highlight that.
Near the orange circle, labeled D, there seemed to be a point where the waves bent and came up onto the sand bar as shown by C. I watched this a little earlier before the bar was covered by water and waves were coming from about two o'clock and there were also waves hitting the bar from about 10 o'clock. I wish I had my camera at that time.
The orange spot (D) would be the first place I'd check with a metal detector, however the dip was not nearly deep enough at this time.
The waves coming onto the bar from the left were getting bent and breaking on the sand spit. You could see how the spit was bending the waves coming from that direction.
The following illustration shows waves hitting the spit from both the right and left.
Yellow Lines Indicate Waves Coming From Left and Orange Lines Indicate Waves Coming From Right. |
I came back the next morning and, as you would expect, the spit had changed a little. The tide was lower and you could see more of the sand. It had changed a little, but you can still see the waves wrapping around the point.
The water was funneling through the low spot and then encountering the slope, and having no where to go, piled up on the slope and the spit. The waves appear to slow wherever it is shallower. That causes the waves to bend. There was undoubtedly also some water bouncing off the hump of sand at the upper left and bouncing back towards the spit.
Layers of Sand Built Up On Left Side of Spit. |
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A Lake Worth woman was killed by lightning.
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I spent a lot of time on the illustration above. I'll get back to some other things I had planned in then near future.
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I'll keep adding Treasure Coast bottles as I get a chance.
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On the Treasure Coast have a one foot surf for a few days. That makes for easy shallow water hunting.
Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net