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Permalink Reply by Swamp Hunter on
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Looks like beach renourishment sand.
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Permalink Reply by Robert Sobczak on
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It was a huge beach ... but because it was a very low tide. Must have something to do with the big full moon out there tonight?
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I was referring to the color and texture but maybe its just the picture. When I was a kid, our Fort Lauderdale beach was all shell and it was yellow not brown. Today with the beach renourishment sand, our beaches are ugly brown sand not unlike your picture. I was wondering if your beaches were always this color or is it the beach renourishment sand?
Our low tides also look the same esp in certain moon phase.. You can now walk out quite a ways on all the pumped in sand.
I havent been to the West Coast in a very long time and I seem to remember a lighter colored very pretty beach sand but I cant remember for sure. I was wondering if you have the same beach erosion problems. Here in SE Florida you can still find the original yellow shell beach by digging down a few feet. The old beach was made of tiny white,yellow and orange shell pieces and didnt look like brown dirt or sand at all.. But that beach is buried until the next big storm.
I see now that your beach looks lighter by the duneline. Maybe its just the wet sand looking so brown. .
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Interesting. That's a good question. There was a major renourishment about 10 years ago. As to how that changed the beach composition and color I am not sure. The photos were at a very low tide so that perhaps changed the look of it, too.
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Our beaches are now completely different in color and texture than when I was a kid. We now have an ugly brown beach. The Treasure Coast has also been recently renourished. They trucked in sand from who knows where and there were some complaints up the Treasure Coast that the turtles didnt like the new sand but I dont know maybe just rumor.
Some of the new sand seems to get stripped from the beach and settles in the shallows causing the long beach look at lo tide. I dont remember having those long shallows either when I was younger. We can walk out it seems forever on all the sand. Its going to be a constant battle for future generations with the rising ocean. The new sand also gets soft and mushy at the surfline in places.
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