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| John Brooks Beach Monday Morning. |
I often say, "There is always some place to hunt and something to find," but sometimes it is easier. Sometimes you have to look longer and farther to find those few better spots that are out there.
I checked a few beaches around Fort Pierce this morning, and didn't find any place good to hunt in the time available.
John Brooks had not cuts and was generally mushy. Those long period waves coming right at the beach weren't helping.
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| John Brooks Beachc Monday Morning. |
Fort Pierce South Jetty, being crescent shaped often has some cuts, and it did this morning.
It wasn't cut at either end of the scescent, but there was a bit of a cut towards the middle.
That provides a good illusstration of how when your favorite beach isn't cut, you can usually find a spot where there will be some erosion.
The angles are important, and when you have a good bend, the waves will hit part of it in a way that creates some erosion.
When you don't find a cut where you are, there might be one around the bend. That was recently true at Turtle Trail. The area by the access wasn't cut, but if you went aount the bend to the south yesterday, there was some erosion down there.
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| Fort Pierce South Jetty Monday Morning. |
Of course not all cuts are productive - especially when you are looking for old items. And Fort Pierce South Jetty seldom has any high value targets even when conditions are best. The jewelry there will generally not be very good.
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| Three Foot Cut At Fort Pierce South Jetty Monday Morning. |
It has been a long time since many shipwreck items have been found there. There is the Archie's wreck, which has been thorougly picked over. And as you probably know, they dump new renourishment sand there every year or less. I have found some interesting things in the renouishment sand. It depends upon where the latest sand came from. I don't know where the last sand came from, but I haven't seen any signs of anything interesting in it.
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| Pepper Park Monday Morning Near Low Tide. |
I haven't been to Pepper Park for a long time. It is much like Fort Pierce South Jetty. The modern stuff isn't usually very good, but since the Wedge Wreck is offshore, there is the chance of some shipwreck related items, but that beach hasn't been productive for quite some time. I don't know how it was last fall. I could still see signs of that high water, but currently the conditions there were poor. The beach was building.
The beach there is a lot like some of the South Florida beaches. In the photo above you can see a dip in front of the beach, which is like what you'd see on many south Florida beaches.
I didn't do much detecting this morning. The beach conditions, judging from the few beaches I visited, were poor. It looks like things won't get any better soon. The tides were pretty flat, we got little wind, and the waves have been hitting the beaches straight on.
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| Surf Perdictions. Source: MagicSeaWeed.com. |
Looks like overall conditions won't get any better soon. You'll have to hunt out those few better spots.
Happy hunting,
Treasureguide@comcast.net