2/16/26 Report - Various Beach Beach Cam and Photo Shots. Renourishment Projects and Erosion. Ring Find Storage Boxes.

 

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

Monday Morning Cut South of Fort Pierce.

The cut shown above developed about a day ago.  It looks still pretty fresh today  Doesn't look like it deteriorated much yet.

I've mentioned correleated beaches in recent posts.  One good example is John Brooks and Frederick Douglass.  They often look similar.  Gnerally, when one is cut, so is the other.  

This stretch of beach south of Fort Pierce seems to be correlated to some extent with John Brooks.  That doesn't mean perfect correlation.  There is some variation.

I showed the cut at this stretch yesterday and DJ sent in photos of the beach between there and John Brooks.  It was the area down by the condos.  Those are the next two photos below.

Beach Down by the Condos Between Fort Pierce South Jetty and John Brooks Sunday. Photos by DJ.

As you can see there was a remnant of an older cut there.  It was beat down.  

Checking some of the other beach cams, I didn't see much in the way of new erosion Monday morning.  Most beaches showed no cuts although some places, it is hard to tell what is going on because of ongoing beach projects.

Many beaches show nothing interesting, such as Melbourne Beach shown below.

Melbourne Beach Monday Morning.

Newly dumped sand will cause neighboring areas to erode more quickly because they'll get reflected beach energy.  For example, the new sand at Fort Pierce South Jetty will reflect waves and change the currents to hit the south more, and that is where you see the nice fresh cut shown above.  The new sand will also be eroded more quickly as it sits very exposed to the wave energy.

Sebastian Monday Afternoon South Beach View.

You can still see the excavator working at Sebastian.  

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Some of the Treasure Coast stores are now rounding prices instead of giving pennies in change.  To my surprise, they are not rounding the prices up but rounding down to the nears nickel.

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Instead of putting your metal detecting ring finds in bags or whatever, you can get these boxes fairly inexpensively.

I like the larger ones like the black one shown above, that also has a handle and zipper.  

Both the white and black ones both stack nicely.

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Afternoon, and this Fort Pierce south beach cut is till nice and crisp.  You can see the water being pushed south from the area where there is newly dumped sand.

Surf Chart from SurfGuru.com.

I'd say we'll have some additional nice little cuts this week.  

Good hunting,

TreasureGuide@comcast.net