10/3/23 Report - Finally Some Erosion and Improvement to Beach Metal Detecting Conditions on Treasure Coast. Charts, Photos and Beach Cams.

 

Written by the Treasureguide for the exclusive use of the Treasure Beaches Report.

Turtle Trail Monday.
Photo by Alberto S.

With the hihger surf and high tides and slightly northeast winds, I really wanted to go out today.  I even had my detector in the back of the car, but then had to take care of some other problems.  With my moms declining health, I don't think I'll might not be able to get out much, if at all.

Turtle Trail Monday
Photo by Alberto S.

As you can see there is erosion at Turtle Trail,, and despite the high water, it didn't get to the dunes at these locations, but there is some erosion and improvement in beach conditions.  Wish I could get out for even a short time.

I'm grateful to Alberto for these photos, since I wasn't able to check for myself, and I'd appreciate other beach photos from today or tomorrow.

Now lets take a look at a couple of the Treasure Coast surf charts from SurfGuru.

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Vero Pier Area
Source: SurfGuru.com.

The surf chart isn't all that impressive when taken by itself, but we are also having high tides now, which really add to the effect.  A four-to-five-foot surf won't do much a lot of the time, but now we have the high tides to add to it.

When you get an additional foot of tide, that can take the water farther up the beach a long ways.  If the  beach slope is very gradual, and extra foot of water goes a long ways.

Here is the surf chart for Fort Pierce Inlet area.  Notice the surf is predicted to be a foot or so higher there on Wednesday, but that isn't really enough difference to be worth noticing.

According to the web site we'll have some north winds, but the surf will be hitting from a northeast direction and hitting the beach almost directly rather than much of an angle at Fort Pierce Inlet, north of the jetty. 

Of course, as the beach angles change and where there are obstacles to the flow of sand, you can epect more erosion.

It looks like there is still renourishment sand out there to deal with.  

I wish I could get out there to actually look and feel the beaches, but doubt I'll be able to do that today. 

I'd say give a more "granular" look, which would be a good term to use in the case of grains of sand and how they are packed.  After Birx kept using that term as it related to Covid data, it took hold and became a more commonly used term in the media.  

Don't forget you can get a look at some of the beaches via the beach cams.  Here are some you might want to view.

Cocoa Beach Surf Report and Cocoa Beach Pier Surf Cam - Florida Surf Cams (surfguru.com)

Melbourne Beach Surf Report and Melbourne Beach Surf Cam - Florida Surf Cams (surfguru.com)

Sebastian Inlet Surf Report and Sebastian Inlet Surf Cam - Florida Surf Cams (surfguru.com)

Ft Pierce Inlet Surf Report and Ft Pierce Surf Forecast - Florida Surf Cams (surfguru.com)

Stuart Rocks Surf Report and Jensen Surf Forecast - Florida Surf Cams (surfguru.com)

Jupiter Beach Surf Report and Jupiter Beach Surf Forecast - Florida Surf Cams (surfguru.com)

Some of the cams are oriented so you can get a good look at the beach, but some are not.  Even when you cannot see the beach, you can still see the size of the surf, where it is breaking and the angles.

Send me your beach and find photos.

Good hunting,

Treasureguide@comcast.net