Treasure Hunt on the Coast

In the spirit of my kids’ current interest in the Curse of Oak Island and all things treasure hunting, today’s last minute semi-restful reroute took us to the Treasure Coast of Florida —where we now know why it’s called that! . . Off the coast here is where a dozen Spanish ships sank in 1715, and their treasures have been slowly rediscovered in the last several decades. The McClarty Treasure Museum tells this story through an old video and recovered artifacts. Can you imagine the size of the ship that needed an anchor that big?! . . We learned a ton of history and met some amazing staff who took extra time to show us their special treasures including a replica gold bar, mastodon teeth which washed up shore, and barnacles that grow only on old Caribbean shipwrecks. . . At only 2$ per person, you can beat a better lesson than that! . . The staff member ever gave us some Ai Native American pottery fragments when she found out about our interest in archeology. Fun times! Even if @gary.drayton didn’t magically show up to fulfill our Oak Island love 😃 . . And if you aren’t familiar with the show, corner my kids. They’ll tell you all the people and the story. I have to keep telling them that these aren’t characters but real people. Living out their treasure hunting and archeology dreams themselves!