Written by the Treasureguide for the exclusive use of the Treasure Beaches Report.
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| John Brooks Beach Saturday Morning. |
If you've been wondering what the Treasure Coast beaches look like, I'll show you. These photos were taken about an hour ago on South Hutchinson Island. So if you want to know, here you go.
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| John Brooks Beach Saturday Morning. |
I have not been out much this year, so I didn't know until I took a look this morning. That is some of the best information you can have if you are deciding if you want to go or trying to decide where to go. Even though a picture is worth a thousand words, the best thing is being there.
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| John Brooks Beach Saturday Morning. |
You can see the slope and the seaweed. You can also see where the high beach was moved back some time ago.
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| John Brooks Beach Saturday Morning. |
The beach looks shorter than it really is. The dunes have been moving forward the past few years.
Old beach photos are useful too. It is good to know what a beach is doing over time. If you went back a week, month, year or several years, you would see how the beach developed over that time period. You could tell where it was at different time periods and that is useful information. There were times in the past when it was cut back way more, and the sand that is there now is sand that washed in since those times. You'd have to get big erosion to get to the old sand here.
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| Frederick Douglass Beach Saturday Morning. |
As usual, Frederick Douglass beach looked very much like John Brooks, although a little different.
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| Frederick Douglass Beach Saturday Morning. |
Notice the little sand bar in front of the beach, which is where the sand that eroded in the recent past went.
I saw no other detectorists this morning, and very few beach goers.
I could tell from the beach profile that I missed a good detecting day some time not too long ago, and that around bends, the north side was more eroded than the south side, so the erosion happened during a southish wind/surf. Some of the non-1715 beaches got ripped better than Brooks and Douglass.
I stopped at a couple other beaches and thought I took some pictures, but didn't find them. Blind Creek, was not cut. Walton Rocks had been ripped down pretty good in one area some time recently.
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| Fort Pierce South Jetty Beach Saturday Morning. |
South Jetty beach is once again a garbage pile. There were a lot of plastic cups in the seaweed.
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| Fort Pierce South Jetty Beach Saturday Morning. |
Targets in both wet sand and dry sand were scarce.
I could tell that I missed one spot that ripped good in the recent past. Don't know exactly when it happened, but I missed it anyhow. If you aren't out a lot, it is easy to miss something, but I just haven't been able to get out a lot this summer.
So, that is how those beaches looked.
Want to get this posted.
Good hunting,
Treasureguide@comcast.net