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| Wabasso Sand Loss. |
DJ sent these two photos of the beach at Wabasso to show how much renourishment sand was added and the lost a few weeks ago at Wabasso.
Thanks DJ.
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| Wabasso Sand Loss. |
It seems that renourishment sand often erodes away more quickly than a natural beach. For one thing, to the north and south of any beach that has been renourished, the beach will remain cut back in relation to the renourished beach. Taht makes the renourishment beach more vulnerable. It has also not gone through the same compacting as the natural beach. And thirdly, there are times when the renourishment sand is finer, and more vulnerable to erosion.
I'm also convinced that it endangers turtle nests, because the turtles build make their nests in the new renourishment sand, and then the nests lost when the renourishment sand erodes.
The following shows the density for different types of sand.
- Loose sand: 1442 kg / m3. It is dry sand that has been moved or agitated to loosen the natural packaging process.
- Dry sand: 1602 kg / m3. It is sand in its undisturbed natural form, where it has been partially compacted by rain and gravity over time, but is now dry
- Packed sand: 1682 kg / m3. Sand that has been packed manually or mechanically (compacted)
- Wet sand: 1922 kg / m3. This is the sand that has been in a natural and naturally compressed environment that is now wet.
- Wet packed sand: 2082 kg / m3. This is compacted sand that is also almost saturated with water.
Unsurprisingly sand is not too far different in density than glass. The density of glass is often given as something like 2500 kg per cubic meter, which is also not much different from granite. Compare that to gold at around 19,320 kg per cubic meter.
See density of glass - Search (bing.com)
And Table of Density of Common Materials (sciencenotes.org)
People often talk about heavy objects sinking deeper on a beach, but I've said before that density is more important than weight. And another very important factor is the object's shape.
Bottles provide extreme examples. A empty capped bottle is going to float. An uncapped bottle often be at least partly, if not completely, full of sand and/or water. The partially or completely full bottle will move much differently than the empty sealed bottle.
You'll often find bottles buried in the sand if they are in water or were in the water before the tide went down. The round bottles will generally (all other things being equal) be easier to find than the old rectangular bottles, which tend to lie flat and get covered by the thinnest lawer of sand.
Bottles often get buried in the sand even though the density of the glass is just a little more dense than that of sand. There are places and times, though, when you will find them uncovered - very often that will be near the edge of the water at low tide.
The first old bottles that I ever collected at a beach were found washed up on Key Biscayne right after Hurricane Andrew. I was metal detecting and saw some old bottles. I found an old plastic bag and started collecting the old bottles. I still have some of those. At least one of those I sold - a Whitehouse vinegar that looked like the one shown below.
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| Whitehouse Vinegar Cruet. |
There was also a Gordon's Dry Gin bottle and some other bottles, as well as some coins and other things.
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| HENRY K WAMPOLE and CO., PHILADELPHIA Bottle. |
The contents was a cod liver oil mixture, with other substances including alcohol and wild cherry extract.
This Treasure Coast bottle is in great shape. I'd guess it to be from the 1920s, but haven't confirmed that yet. You can see a couple nice elongated bubbles in the photo.
The Henry K. Wampole Co. started in the 1870s but continues until today.
A New York Times article of 1906 reads as follows.
"The body of H. K. Wampole, head of the firm of Henry K. Wampole & Co., of Philadelphia, was found floating in the North River off Weehawken on Friday, September 14...
There were two partners in the business, a Mr. Koch and a Mr. Campbell. Wampole's death was thought to be suicide but there were various charges of theft and misuse of company money that can be found online. |
| Wampole Ad Listing Pierson Drug Store of Pierson, Florida. |
I have not yet put the bottle on the TGBottleBarn.blogspot.com site but hopefully will soon.
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Last night I got to thinking about how much things have gone downhill over the years. Here are just a couple examples.
Back in the day when I traveled a lot, you could go to the airport and when you arrived look at the departing flights and select whatever flight you wanted. If there was one departing a few minutes earlier than the one your reserved, you could take your ticket to the counter for the other airline and they would without any hassel or resistance, exchange your ticket and you'd take the better flight. The flights weren't always full, and there would be no problem exchanging your ticket for the flight you preferred, and there were a lot of flights choose from. You'd then walk down to the gate a few minutes before boarding and without any security check or delays hop on the flight. And if you were a real frequent flyer, you would usually be upgraded to first class because there were almost always empty seats available. It was so much easier, quicker and convenient. Plus, most flights had meal service in all classes. And most flights had plenty of empty seats, and you could pick the seat you wanted. Now you are lucky if the flight isn't cancelled or delayed after you go through all the hassles.
That's progress.
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The tides are moderate, but the surf will be up just a touch today. Only about three feet. No tropical activity on the map.
Good hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net