Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of the Treasure Beaches Report.
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| Fort Pierce South Jetty Park Beach Cam View Submitted by DJ. |
You can see the erosion at Fort Pierce South Jetty Park, which is not at all unusual. That area often erodes.
You can check areas before going by scanning the beach cams.
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At the end of the year I look back at the top posts of the year before leaping into the new year. This year it was a little more difficult for me because I moved the blog from the old treasurebeachereport.blogspot.com site to the new tbr2020.blogspot.com site. That made it more difficult because the posts from the first part of the year were on one site and the posts from the last few months were on the other site and some posts during the transition were actually on both sites. As a result I couldn't simply get a list of the top ten posts as I usually do. As usual old posts continue to be read years after being posted, so the older posts continue to accumulate views and therefore tend to have more views than more recent posts. That gives older posts an unfair advantage.
This year I'll break my review of the year into two parts. Today I'll review the first part of the year and tomorrow I'll review the last few months. Today I'll discuss January through July.
There were a lot of good old shipwreck finds this year. As I remembered it, they occurred in the spring and then again in the fall, but actually after looking back at the posts I saw that it was more like January and February and then September and October.
Looking at the most read posts of the year, I see that the majority were posted in July. That might seem strange since a lot of good finds were made in January and February and then in September and October, but as you might recall, people were watching the weather closely during the summer because of all the storm activity. With Covid and everything, I almost forgot about all the summer storms that formed this year. Many of them ended up going into the Gulf and away from us.
Somewhat surprisingly, the most read post of the year was the 7/19/20 post, which reported not only a tropical wave but also a backyard meteorite and a fossil tooth find. That post probably received a lot of views because of all the storm activity around that time. The other topics in that post were not the kind of thing that typically results in so many views.
Here is the link to that post.
The second most read blog post was also posted in July, but it also reported on a couple of amazing old finds. One was made by a lady demonstrating a huge amount of "beginners luck" after inheriting a metal detector and another amazing find by a fellow that found an item years before he found it again in his garage. Posts reporting on amazing finds naturally get a lot of views.
Here is that link.
The third most popular post was posted in February and featured photos of the twenty-two reales found on a Treasure Coast beach by Captain Jonah. That is really the kind of thing that I expect to get a lot of views, and it did. Here is the link to that post with all those photos.
The forth most read post of the year featured a couple old coin finds made by Terry S. They appear to be Carlos and Joanna period coins, which makes them older than the coins being transported as cargo on the 1715 Fleet. It was quite a year for Treasure Coast finds and more items of that period were found later in the year.
Here is the link to that post.
The fifth most read post of the year was another post from July reporting primarily on developing beach conditions.
Here is that link.
The sixth most read post year was posted in February and showed a variety of other old shipwreck finds.
Here is that link.
Looking back over the year, you can see that there were some very interesting finds made earlier in the year. Looking back helps you to learn from the past and put things into perspective. In 2020 some of the finds in the beginning of the year provided a hint about finds that were made later in the year. I'll have more about that tomorrow.
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According to MagicSeaWeed we're going to see an increased surf today and tomorrow.
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| Source: MagicSeaWeed.com. |
Happy hunting,
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