Written by the Treasure Guide for the exclusive use of the Treasure Beaches Report.
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| Beach South of Fort Pierce Thursday Morning. |
I visited several Hutchinson Island beaches this morning. It was dark and raining with thunder and lightning. I took few photos because of the rain and lightning, and I lightened up the ones I posted here just so you could see the beach better. Visibility wasn't really that good.
First I visited John Brooks and Frederick Douglass. There were no cuts at John Brooks except in the distance. At Douglass thee were some superficial cuts at the top of the slope. Nothing significant.
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| South of Fort Pierce Thursday Morning. |
I took a quick look at Walton Rocks. It was really raining there and there was a lot of lightning, but again there were no cuts near the main access and there was a good bit of seaweed.
Blind Creek was finally open and nicely paved and landscaped. Even toilets.
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| Blind Creek Thursday Morning. |
Back up to the Fort Pierce South beaches. Again no cuts, but as you can see above the water had been up to the foot of the dunes, which eroded out, but the sand in front of the dunes was mushy.
I only did a very quick scan and hunt with the metal detector when the lightning slowed for a while, but it didn't stop until I gave up and went home. At least I was able to check out a few beaches.
I don't know what the Indian River County beaches are like other than what I've seen on the beach cams. Maybe someone can send in a report from up there.
I had a huge old hickory tree fall down and have to do a lot of work clearing that.
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| Mystery Item. |
This mystery item seems to be brass or something like that. It is heavy, but hollow and has to screw holes, which you can see in the top view.
Any ideas. It appears to be a handle for something, but what.
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Here is a video on restoring old coins. Don't do this on valuable coins. I wouldn't use it for reales or escudos either. Still, if you have some routine coins you want to make look better, you might try it.
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| Surf Chart from SurfGuru.com. |
The surf is predicted to be decreasing. The recent high water didn't cut a lot of the beaches, but I'm sure if you spent enough time, you could find a good spot or two for some profitable metal detecting.
There were probably some spots were the dunes dropped out some nice old finds, or maybe some slopes that got moved back.
My timing was poor today. In the old days I would have stuck with it until I found a hot spot.
I've got some exciting stuff to post in the future. There are some real interesting things going on. For example, long range magnetometry.
Good hunting,
Treasureguide@comcast.net