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Re: Woman Key |
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Pat Clyne |
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Nov 8, 06 - 9:04 AM |
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Atocha@aol.com |
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http://,2 |
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Ahhh yes, beautiful Ballast Key. We've all played around that picturesque island from time to time on the way out to or coming back from the Atocha site. I remember Mel asking me to do some sledding just south of the island one time. His thinking was that since everyone knew that there was once an early shipwreck there and it was picked over pretty good through the years, than perhaps some of the remains of the 1622 fleet might be hidden below the scatter and no-one even realized it. Ballast Key by the way supposedly got its name from a late 17th century shipwreck that washed ashore and scattered iron ballast along its southern beach.
This seemed pretty logical to me and any chance to go play…I mean work around any of those islands is a great way to spend a week or so. So I loaded up my boat and went out there with Cathy, our archaeologist at the time, and Carol T. to do some visuals. As anyone who’s been there knows it’s very shallow, clear and strewn with what appears to be ballast rock now covered in all sorts of bio-diverse vegitation. Although the time spent there didn’t produce anything that was recognized as “significant”, in Mel’s view it was time well spent in the process of elimination. I couldn’t have agreed with him more. I always loved the way that man thought
PS- if anyone is interested, the owner of Ballast Key, David Wolkowsky is still trying to sell the island. David will now accept a mere $9,400,000.00 for it. (You know how it is- the housing market boom is over and the price just dropped- Don’t ya’ll go rushing to your check books at the same time now).  |
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