1/21/25 Report - Erosion on Treasure Coast Beaches. Nice Detecting Spots Today. Closed Beaches. Snow Covered Pensacola Area.

  

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

John Brooks Beach Thursday Morning.

I took a look at a few beaches and did a little metal detecting.  There was a little erosion and some nice detecting.

First I stopped at John Brooks, which you can see above.  The weather was pleasant - a little cool, but not raining or windy.

As you can see there was a little erosion near the top of the slope - what I've begun to call a rim.

John Brooks Beach Thursday Morning.

As you can see, the rim extends to the south.

It looked like more erosion down around the bend at Frederick Douglass.  

Frederick Douglass is still closed.  They have barricades across the road at the entrance.

The Blind Creek park is still closed.  The parking lot is torn up and they are doing renovations down there.

Walton Rocks Beach Thursday Morning.

Unfortunately, my camera battery went dead after I took the photo above looking to the north at Walron Rocks.

To the south, there was better erosion and many rocks towards the bottom of the beach showing at low tide.  I did some detecting there and there were good older targets.  I have some encrusted coins soaking now.

That part of the beach has been like that multiple times in the past few months.  Under a few inches of renourishment sand is tan sand and a layer of shells down below that.  Before the last renourishment efforts, this beach was lower and then refilled before the renourishment.

From what I saw today I'd rate beach detecting conditions for shipwreck items at around a 2.5.

In north Florida, the weather is colder and there is heavy snow.  I detected many of those areas a lot back in the day when I was going there about every other week to do contract work for the Navy Air Station in Pensacola.

Snow on Pensacola Beach.

I couldn't believe the amount of snow they got on the Florida Panhandle, including Pensacola and other areas.  

I do vaguely remember a dusting of snow on Pensacola Beach when I was there one time, but this time they got several inches, according to what I was reading.

I always enjoyed detecting up there and did Pensacola Beach, Perdido Bay, Ryerson Park, where I got chased out of the water by a cottonmouth snake, and even over to Milton, an old resort area where an old hotel burned down.

Behind the Holiday Inn on the causeway over to the beach I picked up a nice gold and onyx ring with my Fisher Aquanaut.  I think that was one of my first good finds up there on a business trip.  

Milton was fun.  It produced a lot of old coins and stuff. 

I told about that and some of those hunts before.

See for example, The Treasure Beaches Report Direct From Florida's Treasure Coast.: 5/21/15 Report - Nautical Archaeology And The Rich History Of Florida. Great Resources For Shipwreck Research.

Here is a map of that area.  I posted it before.  Very historic and fun metal detecting part of Florida.

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Historic snowstorm shuts down travel for millions from Texas to Florida

Travel along I-10 may be “dangerous or impossible” for days as a rare winter storm which already dumped heavy snow from Texas to Louisiana, continues to move along the northeast Gulf and southern Atlantic coasts...

Here is that link.

Historic snowstorm shuts down travel for millions from Texas to Florida

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Source: SurfGuru.com.

We have a five- to six-foot-high surf today, but the surf will be decreasing.  It is a good time to get out there and hit some of the better spots.

Good hunting,

Treasureguide@comcast.net