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| John Brooks Beach Early Wednesday Afternoon. |
There was a long three to four foot high cut running the length of John Brooks beach this afternoon as low tide approached.
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| John Brooks Beach Wednesday Afternoon. |
There were coins to be found. Quite a few modern coins. Nothing else other than sinkers and maybe one old find. I'll have to clean it up to get a better look at it.
Frederick Douglass Beach did not look as good.
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| Frederick Douglass Beach Wednesday Afternoon. |
John Brooks was definitely improved today, but probably not enough.
I didn't really like the angle of the swells, and don't expect any significant improvement real soon.
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| Source: MagicSeaWeed.com. |
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Yesterday I began a review of the year and pointed out some of the most read posts from the first part of the year. There were good finds made in January and February and a lot of interest in the storms of July. I've long said that the November to February months were typically the best for metal detecting the beaches on the Treasure Coast and the review of the year supported that. Not only were good finds made in the first couple of months of the year, but also October and November, which were both better than December to this point.
As I mentioned yesterday, my review is a little more complicated this year due to the fact that I started a second site in the middle of the year, so ranking the top posts of the year was not as simple and straightforward. Today I'll look at the most read posts of the new tbr2020 site.
As I said we had good finds in the second half of the year, which included reales and artifacts from the 18th century, but also from the earlier Carlos and Joanna period. The most viewed post of the second half of the year featured a Carlos and Joanna period ring, as well as an 18th century crucifix and a couple modern gold rings.
Here is the link to the top post of the second half of the year.
The second most read post from the second half of the year was also posted in November and mentioned Eta, a late year storm, as well as some finds. We got some big surf during November.
Here is that link.
The third most read post of 2020 was another post from November, which featured news of a shipwreck found on Crescent Beach and the Mohs scale for identifying metals.
Here is that link.
The forth most read post of the second part of the year described silver splash ingots. At least two of those were found this year. That is pretty rare.
Here is that link.
And the fifth most read post of the second part of the year was about the beach closings in August.
That wraps it up. So overall, as I've said several times, 2020 was a pretty good year for beach metal detecting even though we got no big hits from summer storms. One thing that was unusual this year is that most years the top posts include some finds from the salvage vessels. This year it seems the salvage guys decided to be less public about their finds for some reason.
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Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net