Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of the Treasure Beaches Report.
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| High Bank Beach Cut on Treasure Coast. |
Above is a high bank beach cut. It is cutting into replenishment sand. Not long ago the slope below this cut was into older sand, which was now mostly covered.
It appeared that some filling had occurred to the slope below the cut.
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| John Brooks Beach Saturday Morning Just After Peak Low Tide |
John Brooks showed a step far back on the beach from an earlier high tide. There was a nice flat beach bottom at low tide.
There weren't a lot of targets, but there were some on the slope, I would have liked to been there a bit earlier to get more access to the flat front beach.
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| John Brooks Beach Saturday Morning. |
Even with the recent erosion, there is a lot of sand there. The beach is very wide, and even with the dunes moving eastward in recent years, the flat sand beach is still really wide.
There is a little dip to the south that shows up very frequently. It has been forming on and off for several years. I don't have an explanation for the irregularity at that point. I think it must be due to some reef variation or something at that point.
Frederck Douglass is open again and it looks like the horse rides have moved back down there from John Brooks.
If you want to detect at Frederick Douglass, you can take the wife and kids and detect while they go on a horse ride along the beach.
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| Frederick Douglass Parking Lot Saturday Morning |
The construction at Frederick Douglass is complete. The biggest change is the paved parking lots that you can see above.
Some people are already out on a horse ride.
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| Frederick Douglass Saturday Morning. |
You can see that the surf is still a little rough but now hitting the beach straight on. No significant angle.
Frederick Douglass Beach, as is usually the case, looked very much like John Brooks beach. The slope is about the same.
Frederick Douglass beach does not appear quite as wide as John Brooks, but it looks like the dunes progressed much farther east, so it is hard to tell by look how wide the beach is in comparison to past years.
I didn't think the flat front beach looked as interesting as the flat bottom at John Brooks.
Blind Creek is closed. I suspect they are paving the parking lot there. Blind Creek has become a very popular nude beach. Some people were parked to the north where there is a little beach access, but no place to park other than just off the road.
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| Walton Rocks Saturday Morning. |
Walton Rocks had some erosion, including some high back cuts, but wasn't as good as some times in the recent past. I didn't check around the bend to the north though.
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| Walton Rocks Saturday Morning. |
Overall, the beaches that I saw were not back but not exciting either. It will take some looking around to find the most promising spots.
From what I saw along this one strip I'd give it about a 2 or 2.5 rating on my 5-point rating scale.
I'm sure there were some decent detecting spots, and maybe even a few better spots.
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| Surf Chart from SurgGuru.com. |
As you can see the surf will be decreasing today.
I would have liked to do some metal detecting yesterday but wasn't able to get out then. I got a little in today.
We often get some good metal detecting into March and I'm hoping we have another good weather pattern or two before we get into summer conditions.
The remaining renourishment sand is still a problem along this stretch.
I just wanted to do a quick summary of what I saw today. Maybe it will help you a little this weekend. The weather is beautiful and the conditions not bad.
May your coil be over the X.
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