Written by the TreasurseGuide for the exclusive use of the Treasure Beaches Report.
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| Turtle Trail South Around Eleven Thursday. |
Yesterday DJ took photos of many of the Indian River treasure beaches. I am posting those now. You can see beach conditions as well as where the beach goers are gathering.
The photos were taken between 11 AM and noon. As you can see, the tide was pretty low.
The only cut that you can see is to the south of the Ambersands access, and that is in renourishment sand pretty far away from the dunes. That has been a common erosion area over the past few years.
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| Turtle Trail Thursday |
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| Seagrape Trail Thursday. |
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| Seagrape Trail Thursday. |
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| Wabasso Thursday. |
Wabasso Thursday.
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| Golden SandsThursday. |
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| Golden Sands Thursday. |
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| Ambersands Thursday. |
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| Ambersands Thursday. |
Thanks to DJ for that. It gives you a good picture in case you were trying to decide where you want to detect.
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Jumping down to South Hutchinson Island...
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| Beach Cam from Surfguru.com. Fort Pierce South Jetty. |
That is an interesting photo. I like to know where the sand is being moved from or to. I might have to check that out. The photo is from the Fort Pierce South Jetty Beach Cam.
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Don't forget the rich source of information provided by the elderly.
There is so much talk these days about the difficulties of the elderly, including especially memory problems and things like dementia. It is easy to discount the older folks as all being like that and having nothing to offer. That is a big mistake. The benefits of years of experience can be overlooked by those who don't have it. You can't really understand or appreciated it until you are there.
The young have no idea. They have their own strengths and talents, but experience adds deeper lays of understanding and perspective. You are making a big mistake and overlooking a great resource of you don't recognize that.
In recent years I had three relatives that were 95 or older. Everybody is quick to see their memory problems - even when they aren't really memory problems. Observers often INCORRECTLY jump to a conclusion of dementia or medical conditions like that, when what they are observing is really something else.
In her 95th year my mother could tell me details of her youth that demonstrated a remarkably detailed memory of decades ago. I found a bunch of little printed cards bearing the names of her fellow high school students. That was from back around 1940. I'd pick up one of those cards and ask her if she remembered the person named, and remarkably, she almost always did. I was amazed. Her memory was very good despite the many years.
To determine competence, the elderly are often asked some basic questions and if they can't answer them, they are presumed to have memory problems, but there are other reasons the elderly might not be able to answer basic questions that you might think everybody should be able to answer. For example, many of the elderly have sight and hearing problems. It is sometimes a matter of input, not memory. There are times when they don't correctly hear the question or mistake what is being talked about. They can be cut off from much current news and information. If you can't see or hear, it is easy to get things wrong. There are times when they incorrectly hear the question.
Imagine this: if you had limited mobility, had no appointments or responsibilities to take care of, and all your days seemed the same, after a while, you might not know the day of the week - something most of the world would think you should know even thought they might get it wrong once in a while. You wouldn't check the calendar because there would be little reason to do so, and if you had vision problems, you might not be able to read it anyhow. And now with phones and electronics, we see the date and time a hundred times a day, along with being constantly updated on current events, but that is not something a 95-year-old will be doing. And poor hearing can make it difficult to follow radio or TV. These kinds of things are not considered by observers, including professionals that deal with older people and should know better.
I remember when my mother-in-law had low oxygen levels and passed out. She was put in the back of an ambulance and taken to a huge hospital she had never been to before. My wife and I caught a flight and found our way to the hospital, and the nurse said my wife's mother was demented or something. She said her didn't know where she was. How could she? I didn't know where I was either. I was never there before, and I just wondered through miles of hallways, all of which looked exactly alike. It was crazy to think my mother-in-law could possibly know where she was, whether she had low blood oxygen levels or not. Use your head people. There is a world of difference in circumstances. And much of what is judged to be memory issues with the elderly have a lot to do with other circumstances, including social as well as medical conditions.
Yes, some elderly people have memory issues. But not all of their difficulties are due to a failing memory. Memory is contextual. That is a big and statement that could be a book. I'll have to leave at that for now though.
My more important point today, is that even when the elderly might seem past it, they still know a lot. They are often very good at recalling the distant past. Their memory can be very detailed, especially for things long ago. If you want to know what it was like in the past, it isn't a bad idea to talk to someone that was there.
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| Surf Chart From SurfGuru.com. |
Looks like a higher surf around next Thursday.
Good hunting,
Treasureguide@comcast.net