Written by the Treasureguide for the exclusive use of the Treasure Beaches Report.
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| Melbourne Area Beach Photo by Joe. D. |
I've been showing a variety of the Treasure Coast beaches lately. As you probably know, 1715 Fleet treasure has been found up at Melbourne too - both on the beaches and on shipwreck sites. I haven't done any metal detecting up there and haven't talked about the area very much, but Joe D. was kind enough to send these beach photos of the Melbourne area.
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| Melbourne Area Beach Photo by Joe D. |
As you can see, there is a lot of renourishment sand up there too. Joe commented on the poor beach conditions up there.
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| Melbourne Area Beach. Photo by Joe D. |
You can see a cut running along in front of the renourished dunes, and a lot of seaweed. Seaweed is usually a bad sign for metal detecting. It is a sign of a building beach, which often happens after rough seas and a wind change. The seaweed is pretty heavy up there.
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| Melbourne Area Beaches. Photo by Joe D. |
I hope the beach renourishment frenzy of recent years slows down. It seems they couldn't send out and spend the money fast enough.
Notice the flat beach in front of the slope. Some of the renourishment sand did get dragged out there, where it will protect the beaches from rough surf to some extent.
Looks like the photos were taken at low tide.
Thanks for the great photos Joe.
Down in Fort Pierce about a hour before high tide this morning, the water was already getting up near the cut dunes even though the surf is supposed to be decreasing a bit. The water is still pretty rough.
This morning's high tide is supposed to be nearly a four-footer.
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| Surf from Surfguru South Beach Cam View about 8:15 Wed. AM. |
Jerry is going to become a hurricane but remain out in the Atlantic.
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| Source: nhc.noaa.gov. |
I'm still expecting some north winds from that.
I guess we're supposed to get an actual cool front from the north sometime before long too.
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| Surf Chart for Fort Pierce Jetty Area from SurfGuru.com. |
Saturday and Sunday the surf will be back up to around six feet again. We'll see some north winds at the beginning of that.
There is a heck of a lot of sand to be moved, but if this keeps up it will help.
There are still some good spots that I haven't checked. Next time out I'll have to take a long walk.
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I recently posted this RC bottle in my TGBottlebarn.blogspot.com site. While it isn't really valuable, it is a good bottle for dating a site. With the debossed lettering, it dates to 1935 - 1939.
You can find a lot of good history on a lot of bottles thanks to the Society of Historical Archaeology site.
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Good hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net