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| Offshore Rain Friday Morning. |
It helps to keep up with beach conditions even during the lulls. There will be some beaches that are fatter (first time I used that term) than others, as a result, some will require less erosion than othersy to become productive.
I decided to go out and see what was going on this morning. It wasn't bad. I didn't run into a lot of mosquitos this morning and it didn't seem so unbearably hot.
Anyhow, beach conditions were what I was expecting.
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| John Brooks Beach Friday Morning. |
As you can see, there is still a lot of sand and seaweed.
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| John Brooks Beach Friday Morning. |
I did manage to find the slightest bit of erosion. There are a few spots that aren't as bad as most now. They will require less erosion to become productive.
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| Small Cut Friday Morning. |
Beach detecting wasn't quite as bad as I expected. There were a few modern coins. I thought they would have been more scarce. Some showed the effect of having been out there a while.
I've been on the necklace trail lately and managed to come up with this one.
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| 14K Necklace Find. |
Also a fossil tooth, which is a bit damaged.
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SuperRick sent me a link to an interesting article that asks if you should drop everything to go treasure hunting in Europe. Here is a small bit of that article.
The seeming over-representation of European finds in the media isn’t just because of the cultural biases that privilege European history and archeology, but also because of the legislation that governs these discoveries. In the U.K., Marín told me, there are laws in place that “incentivize people to tell the authorities” about their finds. The Treasure Act of 1996, for example, makes provisions for the treasure finder or landowner to receive a reward up to the monetary value of the “treasure” they unearth. Legislation like this, which is not uncontroversial, has been a boon for historians of coins of all periods in England. As a result, Marín notes, we should expect finds in the UK and countries like it to be overrepresented in the news.
The fact that each European country has different laws governing the discovery of coins can sometimes make it difficult to identify the origins of any particular “treasure.” In Belgium, for example, would-be treasure hunters can keep what they find; in France the coins are the property of the state. Marín pointed to an example from last month in which a 27,400-item hoard that was alleged to have come from Belgium actually turned out to have been unearthed in France...
Should You Drop Everything and Hunt for Treasure in Europe? (thedailybeast.com)
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More sand is coming to a beach near you. Here are the details on a new St. Lucie County project that is scheduled to begin Nov. 1.
The project will restore a 3.3-mile stretch of beaches in southern Hutchinson Island. Image provided by SCL
St. Lucie County has signed an agreement with the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that will lead to the restoration and protection of approximately 3.3 miles of Atlantic Ocean coastline in the southern section of Hutchinson Island.
The agreement gives the Army Corps access to 800,000 cubic yards of sand from federal waters just over four miles offshore to rebuild the dunes and beaches on the barrier island that were diminished by several hurricanes and tropical storms.
Thanks to DJ for that.
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If you can't tolerate alternative views, you can't tolerate democracy or science, both of which require exactly that.
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No significant changes in beach conditions are expected real soon.
Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net