Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of the Treasure Beaches Report.
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| Seagrape Trail Tuesday. |
Alberto S. sent these photos of Seagrape and Turtle Trails. He took the photos Tuesday.
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| Seagrape Trail Tuesday. |
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| Turtle Trail Tuesday. |
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| Turtle Trail Tuesday. |
Thanks much for sharing, Alberto.
If you remember, a few days ago I talked about a few miles of beach in South Florida that I metal detected a lot decades ago. I pointed out and characterized a number specific of spots. There were a lot of different areas in that stretch of a few miles.
And a couple days ago, Mark G. told about how he was recently metal detecting at Jensen Beach and looked at a few spots before he finally found a cut area to the north where he made most of his finds.
On the Treasure Coast, you might stop and look at the beach from the beach access, but that won't tell you what is around the bend. Some of the best cuts I reported from Sunday were a good distance from the beach access and couldn't be seen from the beach access.
The Treasure Coast beaches aren't a straight line. The bend in the shoreline changes the angles the waves hit. At one spot the waves will be hitting straight on but around the bend they might be hitting at an angle. Sometimes you have to take a good long walk from the access to find the cuts and hot spots.
There are some beaches that correlate pretty well even if not perfectly. For example, Fort Pierce South Beach has a stretch that correlates somewhat with the beach at John Brooks. And Frederick Douglass Beach often looks very much like John Brooks, but there will be some differences between the two. It seems like more often than not, Brooks will be more cut than Douglass. Even though they often look similar, different spots along the way also will be different.
In conclusion, you should remember that some of the good spots will be around bends and you'll have to walk a good distance if you want to check them out.
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I talked about sensory adaptation levels yesterday and a little about how that can affect your metal detecting. Your metal detector also attempts to adapt in much the same way your body and sensory system adapts. For example, when your metal detector ground balances, it attempts to filter out signals from conductive minerals such as salt mineralization or black sand. It attempts to minimize false signals from those things, which can be a good thing, but you should realize there may also be a cost.
If you use all metals mode enough, you'll learn to be able to discriminate fairly well between things like black sand and signals from actual targets in black sand. It will take some time but it can be done. However. some of the deeper or smaller targets causing fainter signals will be missed from whether you depend upon ground balancing or use all metals mode. There is some amount of information that will be lost in the filtering process.
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| Fort Pierce South Beach Wednesday Morning From Surfguru.com. |
The surf has decreased a bit. The wind is NNE while the surf is NE.
The Wabasso surf is a couple feet bigger than the Fort Pierce surf this morning.
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| Surf Chart from Surfguru.com. |
Good hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net