Cape Canaveral National Seashore Metal Detecting

[macblastr]

i live in cape canaveral, i know several of the security people that work there - one of which detects the beach every couple weeks. he has the entire beach to himself... he wont say what he finds..... also i have talked with people who have magged the area & unfortunately there is so much rocket crap in the sands that a mag survey will reveal nothing. another crappy fact is the sand is at least 50+ feet deep to get to bedrock... and yes you can go pretty close to the beach if you like nowadays because they opened up the area to fishing... i want to go blow a hole just to see what they say seeing my boat is in the port

"testing the blower"

 

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[sabre15]

If you ever go, i would love to come along for a ride!

 

[sabre15]

I am so envious of that security guard, i am submitting my application as we speak!

 

[pegleglooker]

you are kidding right --of course theres stuff there -- its a huge natural ship snag --at night if careless or in bad weather -- for about 150 years (1580's to 1730's) with loaded spanish treasure vessel's running close to land using "dead reckoning" navagation --hugging the coast using "land marks" to navigate by --- the cape was used let them to know when to turn eastward --riding the gulf stream home -- oh yah theres stuf there count on it --now for the bad news -- no they will not let you play in their sand box. ---- Ivan

Well " sandboxs " have many uses..... Just ask my cat :-)

PLL

 

[mariner]

Hey PLL,

What with the moniker? Is it related to our late dear friend Don aka PegLeg?

Mariner

 

[pegleglooker]

hey mariner,
Sad to say it's not, I only knew of " pegleg ". I take my name from the Lost pegleg mine, and since he already had pegleg, I became pegleglooker. But from what I read about Pegleg, he must of been really someone really special. I just wish I had known of Tnet back when he was around...

PLL

 

[mariner]

pegleglooker,

I can see from your number of posts that you have been a prolific contributer. I guess you mostly post on other areas of the site than "shipwrecks".

Anyway, good luck, and thank you for reminding me of PegLeg whom I considered a good, if slightly crazy, friend.

Mariner

 

[pegleglooker]

I'll do my best to carry the name pegleg and also to hold up the " crazy " part..... trust me

PLL

 

[inletsurf]

I thought someone somewhere either in this thread or another mentioned seeing a schooner mast stick out of a dune somewhere along Klondike beach...found some interesting article here:

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=940CE3D7153BE533A25757C1A9629C94619ED7CF

Schooner "Ethel" wrecked on the bay of the false cape (Klondike Beach) April 14, 1890. Debris scattered everywhere.

 

[scubaozzy]

oh they know wrecks are out there. remember the space shuttle accidents....they searched every part of that ocean to rebuild the shuttle for the investigations. we went lobster diving and got to close to there "area" this year and got escorted by a helicopter with missiles hanging off the side of it. oh well, maybe someday . you all take care, ozzy

 

[signumops]

Hey Inletsurf:
Great article! Thanks for digging that up. Would like to see what else you find out. Meanwhile, here is a pic of some of the coins found on the Cape (all points south of Eldora and north of Port Canaveral). These were part of the collection of Bill and Flo Andrews that were displayed for awhile at NASA HQ.

Whereas the Homeland Security types get interested in your coming and going while off the False Cape and the Cape itself, there are some real jackpots along Klondike Beach, and all of that is the domain of the NPS history-huggers. I think it a little odd that you can fish on the beach, but can not metal detect. Of course, the fish-huggers have probably made that impossible now too, in light of the red snapper debacle. On the other hand, its very difficult to bad-mouth the bureaucrats for keeping the seashore isolated. There's nothing else quite like it. They do let people dig inside the park... Doug Armstrong and John DeBry come to mind.

 

[itmaiden]

During WWII there was a German U-boat stationed off the Cape blowing up everything that came through, military and civilian. Considering that and NASA experiments, there could well be things the US Gov't or the Military might not want people to find.

itmaiden

 

[sabre15]

I would love to here more about this, PM me or e-mail whatever is safer!

 

[wavecrazed]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v152/wavecrazed/pics227.jpg?t=1261100714

 

[sabre15]

How close is that picture from the beach? Is tha national seashore?

 

[sabre15]

Where is eldora and where or what is the false cape? Are there wrecks at nat seashore or are they south down past the cape itself? Does the cape create a natural say catchers mit of debris the way it sticks out and curve?

 

[ronald99]

That pic is on the north side of port canaveral your looking at airforce launch pads not the launch area further north where NASA launches the shuttle, That is by Playlinda beach east of Titusville Where this pic was taken, people fish there alot just come out of port canaveral inlet and turn left North a few hundred feet and that is where that pic was taken. Playlinda beach would be a great place to beach detect but i heard they wont let you but you can fish surf and at the north end of the beach you can lay there naked, everything but Beach detect.

 

[billinstuart]

Growing up in titusville in the '60's, we had JC beach, which was south of Playalinda a few miles. spent many hours on the beaches fishing and riding motorcycles. Little did we know about what was on those beaches.......

 

[itmaiden]

Nothing like lost opportunity. We can only believe that our time will come and keep hunting.

itmaiden

Growing up in titusville in the '60's, we had JC beach, which was south of Playalinda a few miles. spent many hours on the beaches fishing and riding motorcycles. Little did we know about what was on those beaches.......

 

[signumops]

Where is eldora and where or what is the false cape? Are there wrecks at nat seashore or are they south down past the cape itself? Does the cape create a natural say catchers mit of debris the way it sticks out and curve?

Eldora is a mile or so south of Turtle Mound, near the north boundary of the Canaveral National Seashore. False Cape is a slight bulge just to the north of the Cape itself. There's more than a few wrecks north of the actual Cape, with many lying along Klondike Beach, the High Cuts, Pardon Hammock, the Castle Windy area and the Silver Palm Hammock area. At least one 1715 era Mexican 8 reale has been recovered toward the north end of the park, and on the islands in the Mosquito Lagoon, some very OLD Spanish and French coins have been dug up.

The south side of the Cape is sort of a catchment, but, last century, there was a pier there, and a marine railway for hauling boats at the fair burg of Cape Canaveral proper.