The Treasure Hunt

At breakfast one November day

When Carter looked under his plate

A clue he did find

It was all numbered lines

A treasure hunt was now underway.

The book Treasure Island was the key

To solving this fun mystery

This clue soon was solved

Words and pages involved

As we journeyed along on the sea.

"Shore north to find shelter from the wind"

Searching North Sound beach went the friends

At the point was the clue

It told what to do

To Prickly Pear the group it did send.

"Broke fence post, ten feet and then dig"

The treasure they hoped would be big

In sand by the rocks

Griffin found a small box

Back on the boat, they continued the gig.

The next clue was resting inside

It started with, "I was once alive,

To continue your quest,

Find where my home rests

In shallow waters you may need to dive."

To Peter Island they followed the trail

No room to anchor so on past they sailed

In the shallows they looked

Caught a shell with their hook

On to Norman Island to finish this tale.

The final clue required some aid

On a map calculations were made

Nick marked the spot

Then excited they got

At dusk they prepared for their raid.

Treasure Point cave, they all dinghied inside

The old canister Britton soon spied

Then back to the boat

The dinghy did float

They divvied their pirate surprise.

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Location:BVI

My First Scuba Dive! Carter

My first scuba dive today was awesome!I had 4 pound weights to help me stay down. While we were descending Nick saw a great big huge sea turtle. During our dive Britton found a spotted moray eel. It was cool diving! We were able to see the only porthole that survived the blast that sank the Rhone. We also saw a silver spoon that was in the coral. After our dive we went snorkeling. We saw another huge sea turtle. Nick and I started to chase it. When we dove down and got closer we saw how big it was and it was just sitting on a rock. When we started snorkeling I was the first to jump in and it was cold! When I looked down I saw the biggest sting ray of my life! When I first saw it, it was buried in the sand. When it dug out it was even bigger! The way it swims is "BEAST", it looks like it is just gliding in the water. Britton saw another sting ray and her dad John swam right for it. He didn't know it was there and it looked like it was going to sting him. He also found a really old wine bottle. We also came to the end of our treasure hunt today. Billy Bones led us to a cave with bats in it that a treasure was in. We each got some gold coins. It was a cool treasure hunt.

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Location:RMS Rhone November 26

The Dive Griffin

I had to wake up bright and early this morning (7:00), to eat, change and prepare for my dive. So we sailed over to Salt Island early to get a mooring so the dive boat could come and get us. We had to wait about an hour and a half for the dive bot to come. When we were getting ready to dive I had to use 4 pound weights to help keep me down. We dove for about 45 minutes. My favorite fish we saw was probably the spotted eel. What shocked me the most was when I got a bloody nose while diving. All was ok though. I saw a school of squirrel fish and a really neat colored fish that was yellow in the front and black on the tail. While we were diving around the Rhone I saw the lucky porthole. It was the only one to survive the wreck. If you rub it 3 times clockwise it is supposed to give you good luck. I also saw a spoon that was still shiny. I also got to see the area that the only passenger survivor came from. He crawled out of the lucky porthole. All the hard work that I did in Arkansas last summer preparing for my scuba dive really did pay off. OK, back to the nose. When I was trying to go deeper I hit the wrong button on my BCD, (basically a life jacket that you can inflate and deflate while scuba diving. It does more, but that is a basic part). I accidentally hit the wrong button and added more air into ot. I starting shooting to the surface and was fighting to stay down. My dad grabbed my foot and pulled me down but by that time I had a bloody nose. It filled up my mask but I was ok. It stopped. We also went snorkeling and saw a ton more fish, a sea turtle and a sting ray. John disappeared for a while looking for an octopus. He finally found one, but it wouldn't come out of its hole. Poor John! Then we finished our treasure hunt. Billy Bones sent us into a cave where we found the treasure. Good ol Billy gave us each some gold coins. It was fun figuring out the clues. Well that is that! Another spectacular day in the BVI!





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Location:RMS Rhone November 26

Scuba - Nick

Today was by far my favorite day of the vacation. We first sailed over to Salt Island and rested for an hour or so before the dive boat came. When it arrived, we got out briefing and received out equipment. After that, we submerged. Underwater was like a whole different world.



When I reached the bottom the first thing I saw was a huge sea turtle. After it disappeared, I saw maybe 30 other species of fish from tube-like trumpetfish to the fat Bermuda chub. The group and I swam the ruins of the Rhone for about 45 minutes, all the while looking at the amazing view. Finally, I started to run low on air and the group returned to the surface. We then listened to the Rhone's story and gave back our gear. We then sailed past Dead Chest Island to Norman Island where we sadly ended our day.




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Location:The Wreck of the Rhone, Salt Island

Britton's Dive Log

This morning we woke up and sailed to Salt Island. Of course I was laying in bed while sailing because it was a little too early for me still. Then the dive boat came after breakfast. Our dive masters names were Kyle and Samantha, they both were really nice. We put our gear together, I had to put on a total of 4 pounds thence went to the end of the boat, jumped in and went down. My dad, my grandpa and Nick went down before all the rest of us and they saw a sea turtle! After some swimming around, I saw a little black thing that looked like a fish that was eating, straight up and down in the water, but then I got a closer look and saw that it was actually an eel! It was a spotted moray eel, I loved it! Right after that, Kyle and Samantha showed us a silver spoon that was used on the Rhone but now is surrounded by coral and rock. A couple of yards from that they pointed out the lucky porthole, as they call it. It was lucky because the one passenger who survived the wreck of the Rhone was staying in the cabin with that porthole about one hundred fifty years ago. Apparently if you rub it three times in a clockwise direction it gives you good luck. So of course I did that. We saw some huge queen (rainbow) parrotfish and some smooth trunkfish and more, but those were my favorites. That was our only dive so we enjoyed it as much as we could before we had to go up, we stayed down there for about 45 minutes. It was easy because it was fine equalizing for me, but the one thing I did not like was the cold water.







Spotted Moray Eel


After we got back to our boat, we went to Peter Island. Since there were no moorings we had to anchor. Well, we would have but it was too crowded so we were on our way out of that area when my dad was messing around with the mooring poll (boat hook) and when he pulled it out of the water there was a conch shell with the same type of numbers and writing as the other clues on it. It was signed B.B. (Billy Bones). We sailed on to Norman Island, our next stop and also the place where the treasure was. After we got there, we ate lunch and hopped right in to snorkel. Carter, Nick and my dad all saw a Ray right under them since they were in the water first. Then the rest of us hopped in too. After some swimming, we saw an eel, then swimming over to the small drop-off, we saw the same ray! After we all got a chance to see it, it swam away. Of course, like always my dad went off, still snorkeling after we all got out and he found an octopus. While he was doing that and taking pictures, we went to the cave to find our treasure. The cave was in the water so we took the dinghy over there and went in? It was pitch black in there but luckily we had two flashlights. We went all the way to the back of the cave and did not find it then right when we were turning around, I saw a silver box that shimmered in the dark! In it were gold coins. There were just enough one-dollar coins to split evenly. By then we were sure that we had found the treasure but if you don't believe me, there on the top of the box it said "B.B."






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Location:November 26, 2010

Clue #3 solution

In cove southwest of Dead Chest fifty yards north of beach in water along shore.






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Location:Peter Island

Treasure Hunt, Clue #3

I was once alive, but some swab got hungry for chowder. Now my abandoned house rests: 8-5-4 // 4-7-5 // 194-7-5 to 197-4-8 // 53-2-2 // 30-20-5+7 // 194-10-2 // 142/22/5 // 155-3-7 // 53-2-2 // 78-9-10 // 8-5-4 // 4-28-9 // 11-10-4 // 05-2-7

Billy Bones


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Location:Prickly Pear Island, November 23