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| Beached Sailboat at Walton Rocks. |
There was a beached sailboat at Walton Rocks. It had a big hole in the side and the ripped sail was in the dunes.
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| Sailboat Beached on Walton Rocks. |
Junk from the wreck was scattered all over, including a lot of plastic.
There was a good bit of erosion at John Brooks today, especially to the north.
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| North of John Brooks Beach Access This Morning. |
There was a cut of about four feet, plus or minus, running for a few hundred yards north of the John Brooks beach access.
The top half of the slope was mushy, but there was firmer sand near the water.
Despite the cuts, I didn't particularly like the looks of it, but did a little detecting anyhow.
Right in front of the access, the beach wasn't that cut.
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| Frederick Douglass Beach Sunday Morning. |
Frederick Douglass Beach also had some cuts this morning. The sand near the water actually looked better here.
I'm still on the ring path. Found one more today. I was surprised again by the number of modern coins on the beaches. I found a lot of modern coins on two different beaches today.
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| Junk Ring Found Today. |
I'm sticking with my 2 rating on my 5-point Treasure Coast Beach Conditions Rating Scale. It is certainly better than summer conditions, though it hasn't really started to produce much older stuff yet - with a few exceptions. I only saw a few of the Hutchinson Island beaches today. I don't know what is going on in the Vero/Sebastian areas today.
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Stick of Lead Found on Beach With Bunches
of Modern Coins and Small Pieces of Copper.
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The lead didn't show the oxidation that you'd expect to see on older lead. I suspect it isn't very old.
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| Source: MagicSeaWeed.com. |
With the slightly improved conditions that we have now, some additional erosion might get us into the older stuff. Maybe it is already happening at one or two spots.
As you can see from the surf predictions, we'll have a little rest and then the surf will be building again.
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Added 6 PM.
Steve M. sent me photos of beaches in the Vero/Sebastian area. I'll post his descriptions now and add the photos as soon as I can.
My wife and went to the beach today to check for erosion. First we went to Tracking Beach as last time we went to go there it was closed and a sign said dune renourishment going on. We immediately went to Jaycee park, to see, but it looked like trucked in sand piled up. Today we found that they made the dune go seaward about 40’ and planted sea oats on it. So first stop, top 2 pics, are South and North of Turtle trail. Beach had a lot of sand up high. But eroded at beach. Next 2 down were Golden Sands. Same conditions. Next 2 down are Treasure Shores, same. Last are Sebastian inlet state park. Same condition.
Thanks much Steve. Looked like less erosion up there than on John Brooks.
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Happy hunting,
Treasureguide@comcast.net
