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Moving specifically to Santa Monica. I read some nice history about that town and the pier etc... maybe some seated and barbers still wash up after storms!? When I get a car I'll plan some weekend trips to the mountains etc... looking forward to it.

 

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Moving specifically to Santa Monica. I read some nice history about that town and the pier etc... maybe some seated and barbers still wash up after storms!? When I get a car I'll plan some weekend trips to the mountains etc... looking forward to it.

It's been a long time since "seateds and barbers" got revealed after beach storms. The 1982-83 storms were so severe, and eroded down so far, that ........... ever since then ......... seems that it's primarily clad, even after surf/swell/wind/tide erosion. Like, it's almost as if the coins got washed out, and never returned. Yeah I know the sand comes back in annually with each calm spring/summer, but ....... for some reason, there's some beaches in CA, that it just seems that you have to get back down to those '82-83 levels, if you ever hope to see silver again, because it's just so frickin' rare now.

However, there's two types of erosion: the type the measures how for DOWN in the sand it goes, and the type that measures how far BACK in the dunes it goes. I have seen some beaches where it doesn't seem to matter how far down in the sand it goes (even down to bedrock) in current erosion. However, occasionally a system nibbles back into the ice-plant covered dunes, presumably further back than the '82-83 storms, and those can reveal silver that hadn't been exposed yet.