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| Cover of Florida Shipwreck Treasures by Frank Hudson. |
This is a fairly old book. It is the only book I can recall that no copyright or printing date. I've had it for a long time. I think it must be from the 1980s or earlier. I used it many years ago.
This book gives crude map locations for shipwreck treasures around the state of Florida. As far as the Treasure Coast, it mostly skips the 1715 Fleet wrecks because they are under private contract, but mentions several others between Cape Canaveral and Jupiter, including the Dove (1733), Pedro Menendez (1572), one described as "possibly" the San Pedro (1597), HMS Wolfe (1741), Betsy (1788), three other unnamed Spanish galleons from 1565, the "Gold Wedge Wreck" (undated), the Nantwich (1696), Burrough, (1696), Reformation (1696), along with the rough positions of a few other unnamed wrecks.
You can see in Hudson's book how the knowledge of some of the wrecks have changed in the past few decades, and it is important to remember, no matter how correct Hudson's information is, that there are other wrecks along the Treasure Coast in addition to those of the 1715 Fleet that receive so much attention.
The book seems a little outdated now but is still worth browsing.
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Here is an unfortunate event. A Treasure Coast man was killed by falling sand as he rested at the base of an eroded dune cliff. I remember once years ago mentioning the danger of falling sand from high dune cliffs, but couldn't find the specific post. Below is the link to that article.
Man killed in sand dune collapse while he filmed sunrise (yahoo.com)
I remember when I reported the danger of that before, it was when the water was high and the dune face was soaked by spray, rain, etc. and was wet and the large lumps of sand crashing down were very heavy.
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And here is an interesting bit of Treasure Coast history.
Here is part of the story told by Anthony Stevens as posted in another blog, which is also the source of the above photo. The link is provided below.
Tge story begins as follows.
Horse Patrols on Hutchinson Island
“Early in the war, it was decided that they needed to maintain regular patrols of the Atlantic beaches. Someone in Washington thought that horse patrols would be a good idea.
Here is the link to the blog post describing how that all worked out.
Thanks to DJ for that link. Take a look.
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| Source: nhc.noaa.gov. |
Nothing much on the storm map that will affect us much.
We are still having some nice big tides, but the surf is almost nothing.
Good hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net