2/24/26 Report - One Thing You Might Want to Do To Before Deciding What Beach You Might Want to Metal Detect on Any Particular Day.

 

Fort Pierce Around Noon Monday.

This might not be about what you think.  I'm not showing the current state of the beaches.  I'm showing yesterday's beaches.  The purpose is to show some correlations, how beaches develop and how that can inform decisions about where you might want to hunt.  

Sebastian Around Noon Monday.

I got the first two beach cam views yesterday morning.  Why?  It wasn't because I wanted to go to either of those two beaches.  But by taking a look at what was going on, I'd get a better idea about where I might actually want to go.

Those two spots aren't the areas I'd be most interested in seeing, but you can easily check them out.  They are two I'm showing here and that I've showed in the past, but there are other beach cams you might want to check before going out. I showed several of those in the past.

What I've noticed is that very often when the Fort Pierce South Jetty beach shown by the South Beach Zoom cuts, so does the beach at John Brooks.

Looking at the Fort Pierce view from yesterday morning, you can see that a small cut was developing.  When I checke out John Brooks a few hours later, as I expected, there were some cuts there as well.

John Brooks Beach Monday Afternoon.

These cuts are a different type but there is beach scalloping and erosion.  It actually looked something like it did back in December when I found a two-reale there.  I wasn't expecting big cuts, and they were small - some peaks were one foot and others larger - up to three feet.

John Brooks Beach MondayAfternoon.

The cuts were a little bigger to the south down towards Frederick Douglass.

Frederick Douglass Beach Monday Afternoon.

It looked like the beach was changing and was different from the morning.  

  

Walton Rocks Beach Monday Afternoon.

Down at Walton Rocks there was a very small cut, as you can see above.  

Walton Rocks Beach Monday Afternoon.

This beach hasn't changed much in the past couple of months.  The cut was freshened and maybe moved back a few inches but was little different from the past couple of times I was there.  

Walton Rocks beach does not appear to be correlated with the Fort Pierce South beach.

Rocks Showing Above Sand at Walton Rocks Monday Afternoon.

I showed the rocks at Walton Rocks in some previous posts.  They were at near the same height.

The Walton Rocks beach does not seem to be as correlated with the Fort Pierce South beach as John Brooks.  And Frederick Douglass is highly correlated with John Brooks.  They are usually pretty similar.

The point I'm making today is that you can learn to predict to some extent what one beach will do by looking at the wind and surf factors, but also by looking at other beaches.  Some beaches are positively correlated with other beaches.  Of course, the correlation won'tbe perfect but it will give you some idea.  

Other beaches are negatively correlated.  They are at different angles and will cut at different times.  

Of course there is more to it, but you can get a good feel for what will likely happen by looking at such things as the wind and surf or looking at what other correlated beaches are doing.  

The beach cams are useful in a variety of ways.  You can see a lot of what is going on and how things are developing before you decide if or where you will hunt on any particular day.

Good hunting,

Treasureguide@comcast.net