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As I said yesterday, this time of year we occasionally get fronts that come through, that affect beach metal detecting conditions. Last night we had a front come through, with the typical wind shift. With the north winds and south running current, at least a few local beaches developed modest cuts. You can see one such example of that above. Notice the small mid-beach cut.
I would have liked to see a larger surf. Today the surf should get up to three or four feet. Not all that big, but maybe worth checking some spots, especially with the beach renourishment projects just getting started.
I am quite pleased with how much I've learned about beach dynamics as it relates to metal detecting in the last forty or so years. When I started this blog around 2008 or so, people were mostly talking about big waves and northeasters, which do have an effect, but now detectorists talk about other things as well. Wind and surf direction, and the angles, and long-shore currents, for example. People weren't talking about things like coin lines back then either. That is a discussion that I introduced. Now the general conversation, and the body of knowledge, has become more extensive and nuanced. If you've been reading this blog over the years, you probably were well ahead of most people when it comes to learning about those things.
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This morning Mike T. saw the beginnings of the St Lucie County renourishment project. He pointed out that the Martin County project will be beginning soon and running concurrently with the St. Lucie County project. He sent these photos, and a link to the County renourishment project along with his email.
Mike continued...
I am disappointed as many of us will be that some of our best hunting areas will be covered up with yucky grey sand for years to come.
The project will be pumping sand on the Northern Martin County beaches from the St. Lucie line all the way South of Stuart Beach :(
I have included a couple pics from Sunday morning’s look South from Normandy Beach.
They are currently staging pipes and pump stations to pump the sand South toward Martin County beaches.
On a positive note, we did find a couple nice shark teeth this morning at Jensen low tide.
Happy hunting :)
Below is a shell pile that Mke found. I always like to check shell piles for sea glass, shark teeth, or whatever else might be interesting.
Here are a couple links to sites containing a lot of information about the project. The site will also keep up with the project progress.
That site has much good information, including the following illustration.
As you can see, that ;project begins at Jensen and goes south.
The site also will keep you up to date on the projects progress.
I'm always interested in what might be dumped on the site from the off shore dedge sites. For example, the material will be screened to .75 inches. Here is what it says.
Placement Side
: Clean Fill is placed onto the shore
where material greater than ¾” is screened out of sand
that is placed.
Check out the site. There is a lot to see.
Thanks much for sharing Mike. Keep checking for shark teeth and whatever else might be brought in.
Good hunting,
Treasureguide@comcast.net