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Looks like a snow event is coming here tomorrow.
They're forecasting 7-11 inches. (18-28cm)

Glad I don't live in this town. 55 inches over the weekend.

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Good morning, cruising along Puerto Rico heading for St.Thomas. 80's outside the cabin this morning. Coffee in bed watching the sea roll by. :coffee2: 🌞⛴️ Have a great day.
Sounds like you're roughing it.

St Thomas is a nice Island.
The Mountain Top is a cool destination for a good view and a cold drink.
 

I Recently saw this familiar image on another thread. An image that got me wondering once again and one we all know too well. That repeated image in stories and folklore past. That iconic image of a group of pirates burying their booty in secret sand dunes somewhere on a stretch of some beach shoreline.. how much of it do you think is true? Have you known of a true chest, or hoard uncovered in the dunes of sand somewhere? If so please tell......
I mean it would however make sense of a pirate to do this. For one trying to hide something, why not try picking a recognizable and unforgettable point of reference. And if needing to unload in a hurry, then the beach would be the first place. Of course if trying to get out of being seen, then one would go to inland waters and maybe do so behind a set of large dune that would hide you from open waters.
Now back to the todays world. With so much beach development over time, much has been destroyed of our shorelines. What happened to all these chests of treasure? There has to have been one uncovered somewhere within these developments. Yeah I know, like a fairytale it's good to dream. But I do know this, There's still LOTS of untouched sand dunes out there. There are problems to this though..... unfortunately you can't just go disturbing the dunes unless maybe you own it, and not even that is wise or legal :nono:... Rightfully so, because this is what protects majority of most our coastlines. Still something to ponder though.... :icon_scratch:

Not getting caught is important. Might be rule #1 depending on what's goin on.

Burying a chest. (A chest?) and sailing away... Well I'd miss the chest pretty quick if it was my future income.
And the odds of returning? Based on my luck...Don't worry about my hiding much by boat in a distant place than I expect to be soon!

Is there great wealth buried on or near a beach somewhere? Of course.
In a chest? IF you can demonstrate how the chest came to be , maybe.

Someone else will recall the story of a dune hidden partial wealth and a storm that shuffled the deck (dunes).
The family left the isle and allegedly the lost portion of wealth.

Pirates were don't get caughts.
Get thee to port and disperse thy plunder.
Yes they could bury something if trouble was brewing.
But how near a trouble?
It takes time to beach a shoreboat (dangerous) . Then dig a big hole?
At such a point we're certainly risking getting caught if a perceived threat is approaching to make us hide it in the first place.

Galveston island and Lafitte &co. have anything buried back when?
How portable is buried when the alarm is sounded?
How portable when out of your jurisdiction of marque or country of ally that will hide or buy your plunder?

Now where those port folks that allowed pirates in order to buy stolen goods may have buried anything ...
Where did they conceal their profits?
Liquid to be able to pay pirates of course. But secure from books and banks and authorities beyond locals.
Being orientated means more permanence and eyes on hidden stuff.
Pirates with enough wealth to worry about had families or kin and even debts elsewhere.
And life ashore in a hazardous field could be pricey.
Friends that worked on oil rigs spent a lot when they made shore once a month or so.
Bg money earned. Limited time to spend it. Yet they didn't return here rich.
A temp worker later told me of his shark fishing off rigs.
He kept graduating to better ropes and still breaking them. But that was his entertainment.

Somewhere there's an account of a pirate forcing villagers to drink. And another buying a tub of butter and pelting passers by with globs of it.
Entertaining, but not thrifty. But then why save anything in their field. They may never return to it.

 

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