Browse Items (19 total)
-
Bleached tree at Peck's Lake, 1966
Bleached dead tree and other flotsam on the beach in the Peck's Lake area. Peck's Lake is adjacent to the Hobe Sound National Wildlife Refuge and north of Jupiter Island. Published in the Stuart News (14 April 1966). -
Cattle egrets at Peck's Lake, c. 1963
Aerial view of Peck's Lake inlet. Peck's Lake is adjacent to the Hobe Sound National Wildlife Refuge and north of Jupiter Island. In 1963, an inlet was opened into Peck's Lake by storms, then closed as an erosion hazard.Tags Birds -
Aerial view of Peck's Lake inlet, 1963
Aerial view of Peck's Lake inlet. Peck's Lake is adjacent to the Hobe Sound National Wildlife Refuge and north of Jupiter Island. In 1963, an inlet was opened into Peck's Lake by storms, then closed as an erosion hazard. Published in the Miami Herald (18 Aug 1963) with the caption "Last spring raging seas pounded the shores of Jupiter Island, slashing this wide inlet, left through the narrow neck of land at Peck's Lake." -
Bleached tree and boat at Peck's Lake, c. 1963
A boat near a dead tree and other flotsam on the beach in the Peck's Lake area. Peck's Lake is adjacent to the Hobe Sound National Wildlife Refuge and north of Jupiter Island. -
Aerial view of Peck's Lake inlet, 1963
Aerial view of Peck's Lake inlet. Peck's Lake is adjacent to the Hobe Sound National Wildlife Refuge and north of Jupiter Island. In 1963, an inlet was opened into Peck's Lake by storms, then closed as an erosion hazard. Published in the Miami Herald (22 May 1963) with the caption "Engineers plan to close this Jupiter Island breech… Peck's Lake Inlet carved by storm." -
Pipe fills beach with sand, 1963
A pipe spews sand onto a beach. Similar photo published in the Miami Herald (7 Feb 1963) with the caption "Pipelines strung across Jupiter Island take dredged-up fill from the Intracoastal Waterway and carry it to eroded ocean beaches in attempts to nourish them back to life. More than 60,000 cubic yards have been dumped on washed out beaches in recent weeks. After a few tides, the black dirt in the fill is washed away, leaving behind white sand." -
Aerial view of Peck's Lake inlet, 1963
Aerial view of Peck's Lake inlet. Peck's Lake is adjacent to the Hobe Sound National Wildlife Refuge and north of Jupiter Island. In 1963, an inlet was opened into Peck's Lake by storms, then closed as an erosion hazard. -
Bleached tree at Peck's Lake, c. 1963
Bleached dead tree and other flotsam on the beach in the Peck's Lake area. Peck's Lake is adjacent to the Hobe Sound National Wildlife Refuge and north of Jupiter Island. -
Bleached tree at Peck's Lake, c. 1963
Bleached dead tree on the beach in the Peck's Lake area. Peck's Lake is adjacent to the Hobe Sound National Wildlife Refuge and north of Jupiter Island. -
Bleached tree at Peck's Lake, c. 1963
Bleached dead tree on the beach in the Peck's Lake area. Peck's Lake is adjacent to the Hobe Sound National Wildlife Refuge and north of Jupiter Island.