Treasure Coast of Florida

My friends Mike, Joe and I decided to take a two week road trip through what is known as the treasure coast of Florida. It’s actually a really cool stretch of coastland that basically extends from Hobe Sound to up north above Sebastian, I believe. Anyway, a lot of the legends about the Spanish treasure ships crashing into the shores is supposed to be true and pieces of those treasures are still found. So it’s not uncommon for guys like us, and even some tourists sometimes, to search the area along the treasure coast and try and find some of those lost gems.

So, it was actually Joe’s idea to take this trip but it sounded great to Mike and me so we planned to take a full two weeks and find our treasure. We figured we could afford it since we really thought we would recover a fortune. I mean three guys with our search and recovery skills and two weeks of dedicated hunting, there was no way we were walking away with a treasure chest of some kind. And then, not only would we be financially set, but we would also keep some of the loot, you know? I mean, could you imagine a better gift for your girlfriend than a ruby or something that came off a Spanish treasure ship?

Okay, so we really put effort into finding our treasure for about, oh, I’d say the greater part of the first morning we were out there. We stopped to have lunch and Mike mentioned that we weren’t too far from Blue Cypress Lake and suggested we put up our tent there. No luxury accommodations for us, we were roughing it. We decided to call it a day and head on over to the lake. It was actually incredibly beautiful and we all loved being there. We swam a little and thought we could fish the next day. In the morning the sunrise reflected off the water and made the cypress trees look blue. It was pretty incredible to see Mike, always the poet, said that might be the treasure we were looking for. Well, it’s the only one we found on that trip, but then that first morning was really all the treasure hunting we did.

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