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| John Brooks Beach Tuesday Afternoon. |
I went out to check a couple beaches Tuesday afternoon to see what the higher surf did. The water was higher than the day before and reached farther back on the beach. However, the swells were still hitting the beach straight on and didn't produce any erosion, as is what I expected.
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| John Brooks Beach Tuesday Afternoon. |
As I said yesterday, the water would have to hit and erode the back dune face or move sand where there was a sufficient angle to the beach. At John Brooks and Frederick Douglass there are not the same kind of back dunes with a steep dune face like you will see at some of the dune faces up in the Vero/Sebastian area.
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| Frederick Douglass Beach Tuesday Afternoon. |
Frederick Douglass looked very much like John Brooks. The water had been higher and farther back on the beach than the day before. Still, no erosion to speak of.
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| Frederick Douglass Beach Tuesday Afternoon. |
Overall, on these two South Hutchinson Island wreck beaches, there were no new cuts produced by the higher surf and tides. The wave angles were not there.
I only saw one person metal detecting.
I don't know what the beaches are like up in the Vero/Sebastian area. I haven't been there for quite a while. Maybe someone will send me some photos.
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| Source: See link below. |
Our neighborhood paints an interesting portrait of life in the Early Classic period, which dates from A.D. 250-600. By looking at the styles, forms and decoration of broken pieces of pottery, called sherds, we can determine how old these structures are. Standard residences have walls, plaster floors and a collection of domestic vessels that were used for cooking, serving and storage. We also find agricultural tools made of chert, a type of crystalline rock that resembles flint, and manos and metates, which were used to grind maize into flour...
Here is the link for much more about that.
Exploring an ancestral Maya neighborhood | Illinois
These seem to be more the type of pyramids, or perhaps more correctly mounds, mentioned in the article I talked about a few days ago.
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| Source: MagicSeaWeed.com. |
The surf will be decreasing now, but there is another possible storm system that seems to be headed in our general direction. This one seems to have a better chance of coming close to us.
So far, the surf predictions are not showing any effect on us from that one.
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| Source: nhc.noaa.gov. |
You should be alert to small fossils along the waterline. I saw a couple yesterday.
Good hunting,
Treasureguide@comcast.net
