It started Fri night with the happy hour at Schooners Wharf. Our usual hang out to start our Fri night. A lot of our friends were there so much to catch up on from the week and then 7 of us had dinner together. It was a great evening!
Saturday we were invited out on the water by some friends that have a boat. Actually most of our friends have boats. We are one of the few who doesn't. Here in KW it is really all about the ocean! So we spent a glorious day out in the backcountry. The back country is the area between the main islands and the reef. It is a beautiful ocean area full of shallow waters with ocean creatures, mangrove islands and incredable views! Once we left the island we traveled through the Mud Keys, and past Snipes Key to the area known as the Narrows. This area is where there are channels though a set of mangroves that vary in size to boat through, kayak or float through. We spent the hours floating in the ocean in one of the channels and since the tide was going out there was a great current to float along in. Of course there was lunch on the boat and ice cold beer! And wouldn't you know that I forgot to take my camera with us so I don't have any pictures to share but I promise I will next time since I cannot find the words to truely describe the day.
Sunday was emerald hunting day with Mel Fisher investors on the JB Magruder. The Magruder is one of the treasure salvage boats. Tom and I have been on it many times as divers and Tom has been emerald hunting on it but this was my first time. This is the first time we would be hunting them together.
The emeralds are in the sand from when the Atocha went down in the hurricane. Sine they are hard to find when diving there is an airlift that sucks up the sand into a set to trays on the boat that we then sift the sand through and hope to find emeralds. When Tom did this a couple of years ago he found 4 and this trip we found 4, Tom found 3 and I found one. The picture below is of the 4 of them. You will notice that mine is the smallest and it is a mircle that I even saw it. To see it you will need to look REALLY REALLY close! It is the small green speck next to the M. What a day it was! The sifting is hard work and we do it for hours. In total for the day there were 6 found. The day before a friends of ours found a great one and that one is estimated at $10,000. Of course none of ours are anywhere near worth that. But they are ours and we found them so it was a great treasure hunting day!
So the weekend ending up being a perfect one. Two days spent on the ocean, one relaxing and the other treasure hunting. A perfect KW adventure weekend!!!
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