:usaflag: A Little More Reading The Beach!! :detecting:

[Cupajo]

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These stones are at the Eastern end of the beach I hunt and very likely were placed there by a glacier during the last ice age.

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This shot shows the stones at moon phase low tide.

The larger stone is about seven feet high and in this picture the water is down about four feet from high tide level.

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When the sand is stripped away as shown here hunting is at "rock bottom" and there is only the sand between the stones to deal with.

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I placed my big wool glove on the stone to show what size stones I have been digging among all these years.

I have had a stone get jammed in the scoop bucket on several occasions!

It takes a heavy duty scoop and sometimes a pry bar would be handy when digging there small boulders, but I have managed to get by just fine with my "Poor Man's" back-hoe.

On the West end of the beach the chain link fence is once again covered and the sand is piled up against the sluice-way.

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The ladder on the breakwater is now aver a foot above the sand. Last week it was a foot under the sand on the bottom.

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The amount of sand that can be moved from day to day with even the small amount of wave action we get here on the Connecticut shore amazes me and at times I am shocked to see how changed the water line is.

Okay I'm finished with reading the beach Friends,

CJ

 

[John(Tx)]

Thanks for that report, it helps on what to look for. HH John

 

[Joel-Winnipeg]

Thanks for the explanation.
Here we have large fresh water lakes quite a bit different than the ocean as we have no tides.
The sand movement is not on the beach but in the water 100 yards out and deeper.
Formation of sand bars and small gullies that changes with wind direction.
Very rare that the Beach's move unless high water or violent wind storms

 

[Goldak]

I've hunted lakes with some pretty big rocks and that will tire you out for sure. It probably eliminates some of the competition though! HH!

 

[bdahunter]

I gre up in drumlin country around southern Ontario so you see a lot of glacial erratics there as well as eskers. I have to say that I"ve never seen one at the beach before. Makes me wonder if it was deposited there by a tsunami or a glacier?

Very Interesting,

 

[Cupajo]

As I understand these things, the boulder being so nicely rounded is an indication of its having been tumbled along by a huge ice flow or maybe a glacier.

It did end up in an interesting spot about 150 yards from my "tide rock" which is also nicely rounded and in an odd location.

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I have waded all the way around the "tide rock" and the bottom is rounded too.

The boulder is located along the beach to the left of the tide rock.

It is visible when you enlarge the picture about a 1/4 of the way in from the left edge of the pic..

There is another one a mile or so as the crow flies west of this spot.

An old timer many years ago told me that he used to sit on it at high tide and take his shoes off, then walk maybe twenty feet to the water's edge.

Since the 1938 hurricane the stone has been surrounded by water and slowly it is getting farther away from shore as the beach is eroding away.

(I'll get a shot of it and add it later.)

Lots of questions, but how can one ever know the answers?

CJ