Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of the Treasure Beaches Report.
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| Normandy Beach on South Hutchinson Island. Photo by Al C. |
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| Normandy Beach on South Hutchinson Island. |
Below is a photo Al took that shows the view from the Condos in the south.
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| Walton Rocks Beach Thursday. Photo by Al C. |
The following photos are from Indian River County. I visited those beaches early afternoon Thursday.
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| Turtle Trail Thursday Afternoon. |
When I arrived, there were already several detectorists metal detecting along the beach.
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| Turtle Trail Thursday Afternoon. |
The photo above is between the first and second flag poles.
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| Turtle Trail Beach Thursday Afternoon. |
Notice the two-step cuts. Only a very very small amount of cloth from the blue bags was showing.
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| Turtle Trail North Thursday Afternoon. |
There wasn't much digging going on, but a little.
Down several inches there was a crunchy layer that was holding some stuff, mostly aluminum and modern coins. I didn't get into any of the older orange sand.
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| Ambersands Beach Thursday Afternoon. |
I also took a look at Ambersands, which had a two-foot cut running the length of the beach.
So from Normandy Beach on South Hutchinson Island to Indian River County and Ambersands beach, the beaches look very similar. There was a cut near the dunes, but not into the old dunes and a long flat beach front.
It is nice to get some erosion, but there is till too much renourishment sand at a lot of places. You'll have to hunt out the few scattered hot spots. I'm sure there are some. I'd check some of the areas that have obstructions to the flow of sand or where there isn't so much new sand.
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| Source: nhc.noaa.gov. |
So we still have those two areas to watch for a while. It looks like the area heading towards the Carribean will be kept south by the front that came through.
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| Source: SurfGuru.com. |
The surf will remain at decent levels for a while. I don't think the winds will help a lot, being too easterly. We will have some very high tides.
I was really surprised to see the amount of damage Milton caused near the North Causeway and the town of Vero Beach. Those oak trees that have been there for a lot of years were really twisted and broken. They evidently had a very destructive tornado pass through there.
Good hunting,
Treasureguide@comcast.net