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September 2011

The 1715 Spanish Plate Fleet: The Bank of King Philip V, Treasure Coast Branch

by Ernie Richards Just an hour’s drive north of here [WPB, FL] begins a 60-mile stretch of Atlantic waterfront that finds beachcombers making withdrawals from its sandy vaults nearly every day. From the St. Lucie Inlet to the inlet at Sebastian, lucky people swinging metal detectors —and others just kicking shells aside at the water’s […]

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