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| Turtle Trail From Al C. Monday. |
Yesterday I asked for some photos from Indian River County beaches, and as usual a frequent contributor came through. These photos are from Al C. and below is what he had to say.
Down between the second and third flagpole. Still need a lot of sand to move. The very tops of the bags are showing.
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| Turtle Trail from Al C. Monday. |
Good photos Al. Thanks.
That shows a lot. Notice the two-step cut. Also, the stairs that were probably replaced after the renourishment. Also, what looks in the picture like some black sand.
This is just the start of the winter season after a very long summer of accumulating sand.
DJ another long time and frequent contributor sent this picture from Pepper Park yesterday.
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| Pepper Park Yesterday From DJ. |
Looks like the same rainbow I saw from Douglass, but more little clearer.
Thanks DJ.
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Yesterday I mentioned that there was a bunch of deep junk at John Brooks beach on the slope in front of the beach access. I was digging deep stuff whereas the day before it was totally different. There were coins and sinkers and things like that all near the surface. So it was a real change and a real contrast. One day there were decent smaller targets barely covered and the next day I was digging bigger stuff a foot or more deep.
When you are digging all big deep stuff, it might appear that there are no small targets such as coins present, however if they are present and you might not be detecting them. I'm not saying coins were or were not there. I'm just saying that if they were too deep, I wouldn't know if they were there. Like I always say, you never don't know what you are missing.
I've always recommended removing big targets when that is practical. It seems that one you remove the big targets, you have a good chance of then finding smaller or deeper targets that you didn't notice before. Of course, we know there can be a masking effect, but I think something else tends to happens. When you are hearing big targets, your perception isn't as keen for small sounds. It happens all the time. If you are accustomed to loud noises, you don't notice softer sounds around you. There is a perceptual adaptation. It isn't just psychological. It is psychophysiological.
As you have probably noticed, people from the north find Florida's heat more unbearable than residents. That isn't surprising. We just say we are used to it. But I when I was doing research in the 1970s I found that people who have been in Florida a long time didn't show the same peripheral vasodilation to cold that others did. They lost a cold adaptation response. A northerner when putting left had in ice water would adapt by the blood leaving their hands where it would lose more heat to the environment. People often say that southerners have thinner blood, but it is the distribution of blood that changes rather than the thickness of the blood,
The sensory system adapts too. It adapts to the environment.
This baseline, or adaptation level, acts as the zero point against which your brain evaluates everything new. It isn’t fixed. It shifts continuously based on three things: the intensity of current stimuli, your memory of past stimuli, and the surrounding context. Your nervous system is doing this constantly and automatically, recalibrating so rapidly that you rarely notice it happening.
In vision, for instance, your eyes adjust to enormous changes in brightness throughout a single day. Retinal cells physically change how much they fire depending on overall light levels and contrast, and these adjustments happen on different timescales. Some shifts take fractions of a second; others unfold over minutes. '
When you are accustomed to hearing loud signals in your earphones, you will not be as sensitive to the lower sound level of smaller or deeper targets. I believe that happens physiologically to some extent, but also psychologically. When you aren't getting loud signals, you pay better attention and more intently listen for those faint signals. You might also better tune or adjust your detector. That is one reason I recommend the sequential step search strategy. Remove the easy targets and then you can focus on the smaller signals.
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| Fort Pierce South Beach Tuesday Morning From Surfguru.com. |
As you can see, this beach is now washed flat this morning. The same thing happened at Wabasso.
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| Wabasso Beach Cam. Far South View Tuesday Around New. |
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| Surf Chart for Fort Pierce Aera from SurfGuru.com. |
The surf is decreasing and the angles aren't as good as a couple days ago, but the water is still pretty high and rough.
Good hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net