The two biggest, treasure fleet wrecks happened in 1715 and 1733, just 18 years apart. Both were the result of fierce Caribbean hurricanes attacking Spanish bound fleets, loaded to the rafters with silver, gold, jewels, and other colonial treasure. Such treasure fleets were routine in the waters around Florida and Cuba. Nearly every year, fromContinue reading “The Lost Spanish Treasure Fleets”
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California’s Vanishing Salton Sea
California’s largest lake is the man-made Salton Sea, a shallow, salt water lake in the middle of the southern California desert. It sits just north of the Mexican border. The Salton Sea lies in what used to be an ancient dry lake bed, only five feet higher than Death Valley. Today it is sadly vanishingContinue reading “California’s Vanishing Salton Sea”