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Frederick Douglass Beach Around 10 AM Tuesday.
Photo by Al C.
Al C. was out yesterday and sent some beach photos. Above is a cut high on the beach at Frederick Douglass. Below is Turtle Trail showing the beginnng of a cut.
Thanks Al.
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| Turtle Trail Around 11:30 AM Tuesday Photo by Al C. |
Just a little earlier in the day I took this clip from the Fort Pierce Jetty beach cam.
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| Zoom South View from the Fort Pierce Beach Cam around 11 AM Tuesday. |
I took the Fort Pierce South Zoom clip around 11 yesterday, which was before high tide. Notice that there is a small cut near the foot of the dunes.
Frederick Douglass and John Brooks beaches both have wider flat beaches than this Fort Pierce beach so the cuts at FD and JB are farther from the dunes, but in all three cases the cuts were at the top of the slope.
The useful thing is that some beaches correlate and you can get an idea from some beaches on how othe beaches are probably developing.
Two days ago, I posted some excerpts from a dissertation on stranded beach wrecks. That dissertation also showed a map of eroding beaches that showed that the beaches that were more exposed to the predominant winds and waves tended to erode while beaches facing slight diriment directions were less prone to long-term erosion. The repeat myself, the angles are important.
You may be able to correlate certain beaches. For example, Frederick Douglass and John Brooks usually look pretty much the same.
When I look at the South Beach Zoom view of the Fort Pierce Jetty beach cam, it gives me something of an idea about how other beaches might be developing as well. That can be helpful information if you are trying to decide which beaches to metal detect on a particular day.
To correlate beaches takes a number of observations and you'll still have to check in person ever once in a while to make sure. There is always some noise in attempts to predict.
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| Wednesday Morning South Beach Zoom from Fort Pierce Jetty beach cam. |
As you can see, the small cut still exists at that location in front of the dunes. It didn't get any bigger since yesterday morning. The beach cams can be helpful.
John C. also went out yesterday. Here is what he said.
Thanks again,
All the renourishment sand has made it more difficult to make finds from the old shipwrecks. I think it is going to take an extended period of rough weather to move enough sand to get through all the renourishment sand although there are some beaches that don't have so much renourishment sand on them and the older layers are not so deep. They are generally farther from the recently renourished areas and are more exposed to erosive waves.
It is a good idea to adjust your goals, primary targets and strategies according to changing conditions and opportunities. John is a very accomplished detectorists with a bunch of great finds.
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Can you identify this bottle? If you are as old as me, I bet you can.
- I just posted the answer on TGBottleBarn.blogspot.com.
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Here is the live auction schedule for the current Sedwick auction no. 38.
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I've pointed out before that AI is a bit of a parasite. It doesn't create knowledge as much as it siphons up existed knowledge created by others and then makes it easily available. It does seem to generally give references to where it found its information, which is good, but then it takes traffic away from those sources sometimes too.
Some people say that AI is smart. It does have a kind of smartness, but it is a bit of a copy-cat and is not the kind of smartness that I value most. In general, it is like the students who do really good in school but couldn't find their way out of a paper bag.
I could go on about that, but I'll spare you.
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Hope you benefited from the past couple of days of my series on how cons move on a beach. The dissertation and the QAR study are two exceptional studies that directly address how artifacts are affected by changing conditions. The dissertation addressed beach stranded wrecks and the QAR addressed submerged artifacts. Those are two great studies. After providing the important principals involved I'll get down to translating all that more directly to coins. That should come soon.
I highly recommend spending some time with those two studies. I wish that I had those studies when I was learning all that stuff on the beaches by myself, but it is good to have it validated by formal studies. It also helps to have it repeated in different words. I hope you are benefiting from the series. It might not seem like all of it is directly related but know how things work will help you put your coil on good targets.
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| Surf Chart from Surfgugur.com. |
So now we are going to have calmer seas for the next week or so, which will give you more access to the lower beach.
Good hunting,
Treasureguide@comcast.net