All my kids, their spouses, and my grandkids are at the beach this week. I'll be heading back down there later today.
Sunday night my son in law "found" a letter from a real pirate stuffed in a book. He read it to the grandkids and at the end of the letter it gave the first clue as to where to find the treasure ... with a warning to "not hunt at night for you may run into a fright" .... That's all the kids could talk about until their bedtime.
Needless to say, shortly after sunrise the g-kids were ready to begin the hunt. Here is Beau, Sydney, and Caitlyn.
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Each clue was in a zip lock bag with a brass token (gold coin to the g-kids) in it so it could be found with a metal detector. Here is the first clue being read by Beau.
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The clues ran them all around the area ... they had to count paces, up the beach, down the beach, look for certain palm trees or other landmarks. Here is the gang racing to the location of another clue.
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The last clue had them run up to the opposite end of the beach.
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They finally got a huge signal "50 paces up the path a pirate might take" to hide his treasure. All three were digging like moles and finally see the edge of a real treasure chest.
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They couldn't wait to get the treasure chest opened. Upon opening, all three kids grabbed handfulls of treasure from the chest. I had filled the chest with about five pounds of beach found quarters, dimes, nickels, presidential brass tokens, and gold looking brass tokens from White's.
[attachment 95328 piratestreasure.jpg]
We returned to the rented beach house to divy up the treasure equally between the hunters. Since all three were fighting over who got to keep the treasure chest, I kept it ... and told them they might have to hunt for it again next year. We had a really good time.
Sunday night my son in law "found" a letter from a real pirate stuffed in a book. He read it to the grandkids and at the end of the letter it gave the first clue as to where to find the treasure ... with a warning to "not hunt at night for you may run into a fright" .... That's all the kids could talk about until their bedtime.
Needless to say, shortly after sunrise the g-kids were ready to begin the hunt. Here is Beau, Sydney, and Caitlyn.
[attachment 95324 treasurehuntbegins.jpg]
Each clue was in a zip lock bag with a brass token (gold coin to the g-kids) in it so it could be found with a metal detector. Here is the first clue being read by Beau.
[attachment 95325 reading1stclue.jpg]
The clues ran them all around the area ... they had to count paces, up the beach, down the beach, look for certain palm trees or other landmarks. Here is the gang racing to the location of another clue.
[attachment 95326 racetothenextclue.jpg]
The last clue had them run up to the opposite end of the beach.
[attachment 95329 lastcluefound.jpg]
They finally got a huge signal "50 paces up the path a pirate might take" to hide his treasure. All three were digging like moles and finally see the edge of a real treasure chest.
[attachment 95327 arealpiratechest.jpg]
They couldn't wait to get the treasure chest opened. Upon opening, all three kids grabbed handfulls of treasure from the chest. I had filled the chest with about five pounds of beach found quarters, dimes, nickels, presidential brass tokens, and gold looking brass tokens from White's.
[attachment 95328 piratestreasure.jpg]
We returned to the rented beach house to divy up the treasure equally between the hunters. Since all three were fighting over who got to keep the treasure chest, I kept it ... and told them they might have to hunt for it again next year. We had a really good time.