thanx for the video . Interesting to watch. Not sure if there's a difference between your FL beaches and our CA beaches, but we do not take a dim view of the higher tide days of the month . In fact, we HOPE our storms/swells/winds coincide on THOSE days of the month. Not on the days of little variance between high and low.
Reason is: The very high tides, when combined with the right wind and swells, drive the waves back into sand that is normally high and dry. Versus the mid-band-mid-tide area , which is perpetually "acclimated" to in-&-out waves, all the time.
And notice the gradient of the beach starts to "climb up" at the dunes. Versus the mid-tide intertidal zone, which is flatter. So I would much prefer the waves to be hitting way back at the dunes, than in the inter-tidal acclimated zone. Because if it's hitting way back, then there's no where else for the energy to go (it's hit a "wall" so-to-speak), so it will erode "down" then, we hope. I say "hope", because there's also the phenomenon where the water does indeed go over the top into the dry dunes, creating a messy of lagoons. But if it chooses to "dig down" (creating a "cut"), then we find that cuts further back into the dunes are superior to "cuts" out at the mid-tide zone.
And I notice at one point in your video that you say that the negative tide days (with the most variance of tide differences) will result in "soft sand". Well, not necessarily. That all depends on if there's erosive surf/swells or not. I've hunted many of days of extreme tide variances, where the sand is firm and hard. So it just depends.
And we find gold rings (and sinkers, etc...) that are not necessarily in that "curl" zone you speak of. In fact, it would be suicide on our beaches to be in those troughs during storm action. So perhaps your beaches are simply different than ours. And there might also be a distinction of finding erosion during "no swells/storms" versus finding erosion during "swells/storms". Because yes, there's those who've figured out that there can be erosion during the calm times too, perhaps as you describe.
As for your accounting of a big storm and big tide producing nothing but light stuff: Our experience here is that we would merely try other beaches. Because another beach, a mere mile away, can be eroded in the exact same storm.
Your video was interesting to watch. Gives different types strategies that are food for thought. Thanx!
