10/1/25 Report - Watching a Cut Develop on a Treasure Coast Beach. Tips and Links for Using Beach Cams. High Water Again Today.

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

Fort Pierce Jetty Beach Cam View to the South at Around 1 PM Monday.
Source: SurfGuru.com.

I posted a picture of the above view from early Monday.  At that time there was no cut.

Then I caught the above view at 1 o'clock, and you can see a cut had developed.

Then about two and a half hours later, you can see how much bigger the same cut was.

Fort Pierce Jetty Beach Cam View to the South at Around 3:30 PM Monday.
Source: SurfGuru.com.

The cut about doubled in around two hours.    That was interesting to watch.  

A little later the same day, knowing that some erosion was occurring, I went out to check out some other beaches before low tide and captured the photos I showed yesterday.  There was a good bit of erosion, as I showed.

Even though you can see all the beaches on the available beach cams, you can get several views, which you can use to get some idea of what is going on.  It was the views shown above that told me to go out expecting to see more cuts.

You can't tell for sure what another beach is doing by looking at a separate beach, but it will provide some useful. information.  Some areas are similar and will tend to erode at the same times.  Check the angles.  If they are similar, you might expect them to erode at the same time.  A little experience will tell you which spots tend to erode at the same time.  Of course, the relationship won't always be perfect.

Also, as I watched the cut shown above develop, you could observe the steps and stages. Once a cut starts and the water continues to hit the face of the cut, it knocks sand off the face of the cut, which then washes down the beach.

When the water bounces off the face of a cut, it bounces back and increases the flow back down the beach, taking sand with it.

One thing to be careful about when using camera views, is how the lighting affects the view..  When the sun shines brightly towards the face of a cut, a small cut might be nearly invisible, but as the sun moves west, the cut face will fall in a shadow, making the cut look bigger.  That is something to take into account when looking at beach cam views.  Consider how the light and shadows affects the view.

Here are some beach cams that you might find useful.

Jupiter Inlet Webcam

Bathtub Beach Webcam

Jensen Beach Webcam

Stuart Rocks Surf Report and Jensen Surf Forecast - Florida Surf Cams

Fort Pierce Beach Cam - Visit St. Lucie

New Live Beach Camera at Wabasso

Sebastian Inlet Surf Report and Sebastian Inlet Surf Cam - Florida Surf Cams

I thought you might find that list handy.

Of course there are others, some of which can be found through Surfguru.com.

Another thing that you might not know about the Surfguru beach cams is that you can change the view, essentially moving the camera, to give a north view, south view, etc.  

The view used for the two pictures shown above, is the South Beach Zoon view from the Fort Pierce South Jetty beach cam, which will also allow you to look at the beach north of the inlet, straight ahead, to the south, and more.

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Wednesday we are seeing some nice swells and high water.  Look at what happened.

Fort Pierce Jetty South View about 4:30 PM from Surfguru.com.

The previous cut washed over and disappeared.  What is happening now is better.  The water is hitting the dunes in some place, so some of the other beaches where the dunes aren't protected by a recently accumulated sand could produce some old coins.

You should check some of the other beaches.for dune erosion and low tide areas when the water recedes.

Surf Chart from SurfGuru.com.

Looks like we'll get two or three more days of good high surf.

Good hunting,

Treasureguide@comcast.net