Written by the Treasureguide for the exclusive use of the Treasure Beaches Report.
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| Old Dock Pilings. |
I decided to give a few more of the coin beaches listed in Frank Hudson's Lost Treasure of Florida's West Coast. I gave a number of those in the previous post. I'm not including any of the many shipwreck sites, buried chests or any other of the numerous treasures listed in the book except today i'lll also give you a few bottle dump locations. Here we go.
On Atsena Otie Key, in the Cedar Keys area, old Spanish coins appear on the West and North beaches.
Spanish coins wash up on Horseshoe Beach after a south wind.
On Seahorse Key, coins and artifacts are found on the beach on the east side facing the old shipping channel.
Gold coins wash up on the east end of St. James Island between Bald Point and Lighthouse Point after a strong east wind.
Bottles are found in dirt from Pappy's Bayou on Ross Island. Pappys Bayou was deepened, and the material dumped on Ross Island.
Bottle dump on Egmont Key behind the beach.
An old bottle dump is found up the Manatee River close to the road.
You'll seldom leads like that. You do have to verify the sites for yourself though. Some are now inside parks or under modern construction. I've only checked out a few of them myself.
You can also learn other things from lists like this. For example, did you notice that many of the coin beaches are on small islands? Think about why that might be. And did you take note of how a bottle site was created by a dredging project?
There are tons of buried chests, barrels and other buried treasures listed in Hudson's book, which brings up an interesting point that I'll explore more in the near future.
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| Source; See link below. |
High school teacher Lisa St. Coeur Cormier was strolling with her dog near her home on Canada’s Prince Edward Island when something caught her eye...
“I saw something about two feet long with a strange shape,” said Cormier, 36, who lives in Charlottetown. “When I looked closer, I realized there was a rib cage. And around that, there was a spine and a skull.”
Cormier, who used to be a middle school science teacher, immediately knew it was a fossil. But she never imagined how rare and old, or the excitement that would develop from her discovery that day, Aug. 22...
Here is the link for the rest of that article.
Rare fossil older than dinosaurs found on beach in Canada - The Washington Post
Thanks to DJ for that link.
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| Source: nhc.noaa.gov. |
We still have Earl and Danielle out there. Earl is not going to come much closer, but it is going to hand out there, moving very little from Thursday through Saturday.
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| Source: Ventusky.com. |
According to the models, Earl will not come much closer than where it is shown on the Ventusky image above, and it will hang around there for a few days.
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| Source: MagicSeaWeed.com. |
As Earl sits there for a few days, the surf will build, according to MagicSeaWeeed, up to four to six feet. That is the highest surf, if it happens, that we've seen for quite a while.
Good hunting,
Treasureguide@comcast.net