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| Areas of IWW and OWW to be Dredged (in Green) |
Jacksonville, Florida --
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District, will begin maintenance dredging of sections of the Okeechobee Waterway and Intracoastal Waterway in the vicinity of St. Lucie Inlet on or about January 3, 2024.
The USACE dredging vessel Murden is expected to remove approximately 25,000 cubic yards of shoaling material over a 12-day period. Once under way, operations will be ongoing 24 hours per day, seven days a week until completion. Dredge material placement will be to a pre-designated St. Lucie Inlet Impoundment Basi..n.
Boaters and navigators are advised to maintain safe distances and low wake speeds in the vicinity of the dredge and attendant equipment, and to follow signage and crew instructions to maintain public safety during the dredging operation...
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Don't forget that when sand is building up one place it is always coming from someplace else, so when you see it building, ask yourself where it is coming from. When you get that answer, you might very well have a good place to hunt.
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A new study from a University of Colorado Boulder researcher, conducted with colleagues in Argentina, sheds new light on how the introduction of horses in South America led to rapid economic and social transformation in the region.
William Taylor, an assistant professor of anthropology and curator of archaeology in the Museum of Natural History at CU Boulder, says this research shows that the story about people and horses in the Americas is “far more dynamic” than previously thought.
“Our findings from Patagonia show that the spread of horses, the emergence of horse-based ways of life in the southernmost areas of South America, was both rapid and largely independent of European control,” says Taylor, who has studied horses since 2011. “From almost their first arrival on the shores of the Americas in the 16th century, horses had an impact at a continental scale.”
Here is the link for more about that.
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Yesterday I talked a little about aluminum coins. If you routinely discriminate aluminum, there might be times when you want to change that. Some good things are made of aluminum, as well as other metals that you might typically discriminate. If you are in a place where they have coins made of different metals like that, you might want to take that into consideration.
For example, if you are detecting in St. Lucia, which I have done a few times, they have coins that are made of a very light metal. Not sure for certain if they are made of aluminum, but it could be. When I visited that island, I found many coins in the shallow water, that if I were discriminating, I might have easily missed.
Likewise, you can find coins with iron content in places like Germany. Once again, that means you might not want to use the same metal detector settings that you use when detecting beaches in the United States. Think about what you want to find and how the coins and other targets vary in different locations.
Of course, being a tourist destination, when detecting in Florida, you'll occasionally find foreign coins here that you might miss when discriminating, though not as many as when detecting in areas where their coins are made of different materials.
Also, the lighter (or should I say, less dense) coins of some of the Caribbean Islands, such as St. Lucia, will move differently and you might want to focus on different areas of the beach. Those coins, being made of different metals will be found in good numbers in areas that you might not bother to check when metal detecting in the United States. Being less dense, they will naturally settle differently on the beach.
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How time flies! It will soon be 2024.
Good hunting,
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