Written by the TreasreGuide for the exclusive use of the Treasure Beaches Report.
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| Frederick Douglass Beach Monday Monrning Near Low Tide. |
I went out this morning to check out the beaches and try out the Minelab Manticore metal detector. The beach showed a lot of erosion, although there was still a lot of renourishment sand. Sand got pulled off all the beaches recently.
John Brooks had a nice sand bar and a little dip in front of the beach. The water was running along the beach behind the bar at low tide. There were a good number of targets, mostly modern coins but also some junk. There was also a nice shell line along the lower beach.
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| John Brooks Beach Monday Morning Near Low Tide. |
This was the first time I had Manticore out, and I didn't really know it very well, so I won't give a report on the Manticore except to say that even with the basic settings, it did quite well. It detected targets well and I found the target ID system good. I'll have more details on the detector in the future when I give it a better test.
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| John Brooks Beach Monday Morning Near Low Tide. |
Despite the sand look of the beach, there were plenty of targets down low on the beaches, without exception.
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| Fort Pierce South Jetty Beach Monday Morning Near Low Tide. |
They lost tons and tons of renourishment sand at Fort Pierce South Jetty, but there was still a lot of sand on the beach.
The cut there was six feet or so high and ran for a long distance.
There were a lot of targets near the water, including both coins and junk.
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| Fort Pierce South Jetty Beach Monday Morning Near Low Tide. |
I suppose they'll be dumping sand on this beach again before long.
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| This Mornings Finds. |
I enjoyed the outing this morning. The weather is nice. There was a good variety of targets to test the metal detector. I was pleased with iron ID, as well as target ID in general. I still have some dug targets to investigate. Don't pay too much attention to my Manticore observations. This was just my first outing and a few of my first impressions. I'll have better information on it in the future.
Enough sand has been moved that I'd expect a few cobs will be found on the Treasure Coast, if you can find the right spots.
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| Clip From SurfGuru Fort Pierce Jetty Beach Cam (South View Zoom). |
This clip shows the area just south of where I took the Fort Pierce photos this morning.
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| Surf Chart for Fort Pierce South Jetty Area from SurfGuru.com. |
The surf is smaller, but that isn't all bad. It gives you a chance to get a little farther out in the low tide area.
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| Source: nhc.noaa.gov. |
As you can see there is another tropical storm out there. We'll see how that one goes.
I'm plan to put together a series on how coins move on the beach, but I've had a lot of other stuff to post recently.
Good hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net