8/23./17 Report - What Some Treasure Coast Beaches Look Like. Microsoft Co-Founder Finds Sunken Ship.

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blgospot.com.

South Hutchinson Island Looking South Towards John Brooks

I took a look to see what was happening with the beaches since 92L was just off-shore and we also had some high tides.  I looked at a few beaches along South Hutchinson Island a little before low tide.

Cuts began north of John Brooks up by the condos.  They weren't big cuts and there was seaweed, which means that they were starting to refill already at that point.

Looking North From John Brooks.

These cuts look bigger than they were.  They were about one foot and did not vary much anywhere.

Between John Brooks And Frederick Douglas.

 The cuts continued for what I would think was a mile or more about the same height all the way.

Walton Rocks.

 There were no cuts at Walton Rocks.  The beach front there was low and flat.  There was a scooped out area just north of the main access.  The rocks were mostly covered near with and at low tide when I was there.

Jensen Beach.

At Jensen Beach there was also a very flat front beach that extended well out from the slope.  Still some swimmers and sun bathers out, but not nearly as many as before school started.

At least there was some movement of sand.  I'd like to see a lot more, and it is going to take a lot more movement before most of the beaches become very productive again.  Don't know if it is going to happen this summer.

92L is giving us some rain and thunder this morning, while the remnants of Harvey is forming again and heading towards Texas.

The surf is going to increase about a foot today but the tides are still going to be nice and big.

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What do you do after you become a billionaire?   Go find sunken ships!

That is what Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen did.


"We've located the wreckage of the USS Indianapolis in Philippine Sea at 5500m below the sea."

That tweet from entrepreneur and billionaire Paul Allen around 12:20 p.m. Saturday confirmed what many have been searching for since the ship was sunk on July 30, 1945...
Here is the link for the rest of that story.

https://www.indystar.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/08/19/microsoft-co-founder-paul-allen-finds-lost-wwii-ship-uss-indianapolis/583334001/

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A 200-plus year-old statue of Christopher Columbus was vandalized by protesters.  I think they must be protesting the first undocumented Italian or Spanish ( both seemed to claim him when it seemed like a good thing ) immigrant to the New World.  They probably think he fought in the Civil War.  Or are they protesting the atrocities of the Spanish conquest, looting and slaughter.  Who knows? Trouble with knowledge is that things are not as simple as they might have seemed before the facts got in the way.

Here is a link about the vandalism.

https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/08/21/oldest-christopher-columbus-monument-in-the-us-vandalized-in-baltimore/23156167/


Happy hunting,
TresaureGuide @comcast.net

8/21/17 Report - 92L Still Headed Towards Treasure Coast Area. Some Lima Escudos From Sea Reaper. Solar Eclipse Stamp and Pin-Hole Projector.

Written by the TreaureGuide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.

Source: nhc.noaa.gov

The cone shown in red is Harvey.  The orange cone is 92L, the one that has been headed our way.  At this point it is not a cyclone and has only a ten percent chance of becoming a cyclone in the next 48 hours.  I'm thinking it won't change our beach conditions much unless it strengthens and hangs around off-shore for a while.

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Coins Found by Sea Reaper.
Photo submitted by Captain Jonah

Thought I'd take a little closer look at some of the escudos found by the Sea Reaper.

Here is the picture I posted yesterday, but I put a letter by three of the coins.

The ones marked A, B and C are from the Lima mint.  If you look at the upper left section of the tic tac toe, you can see the "L" mint mark on those three coins.  To the right of that you can see the "2" mark for the denomination.  The escudo labeled "D" is upside down in the picture.

Escudo A, looks like it might be 1710.  I think I see the 7 in the bottom far left, and the 1 in the middle bottom section and then the 0 in the bottom left section.

B looks like it could be 1711, but I'm not sure of that.  And C 170 something.  I don't think the last digit of the date is readable.

Jonah says they've found coins from Bogota, Cusco, Lima and Mexico mints. 

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As you undoubtedly know, we'll have a partial solar eclipse today.  If you don't have NASA approved glasses, you can make a pin-hole projector.  It is easy and it works.  You can look it up.  You don't need much more than a cereal box and some foil.  I've done it before.

Here is something related to the eclipse that I thought was neat.  You can get Solar Eclipse stamps from the U. S. Post Office that change.  When cold, the stamp shows a total eclipse, but when warmed it changes.

Below is the stamp as it looks when it is cold.

And the next picture shows a stamp on the same sheet after it warms a little.

I didn't get the greatest picture, but you get the idea.  A pretty neat collectible, especially if on an envelope post marked today.

They are still available as of about noon Monday.

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If the surfing web sites are correct, it looks like we'll get a little surf from 92L.  The are predicting a 3 - 4 foot surf for Tuesday.

We're going to have some big high tides today.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net