Jim Brouwer

This book is about more of my adventures along the Treasure Coast and was written as a continuation of my first book Detecting the Treasure Coast. They say a picture is worth a thousand words and I have included many pictures of some of the small treasures I have been lucky enough to recover from it's shores. I have also included many pictures of the beach conditions that allowed them to be recovered and of course told the story of their recovery. I hope that in some small way it will assist you in your goal of finding a gold ring or that rare Spanish shipwreck coin or artifact. When you walk the beaches along the Treasure Coast you can't help but think of those treasure ships and the treasures yet to be found.

Wham Wooster, tells his wife, Red, "The grounds wore out and I's wore out and I ain't gots a thin ta show for it." Wham is stuck in the past and can no longer see the good. Red loves her husband. She may have breast cancer. Willie Wooster, Wham's son, has high aspirations and hates the valley and tells Wham that he will give the high school Valedictorian speech in two years and then head to college to be an astrophysicist. Willis Wooster, Wham's daughter, is the artist with talent but has never been challenged. Jeb and Sludge, with nary a care, fish and hunt and sponge off other folks offer Wham advise, "You'uns workin too hard." Happy, their dog nods his head in agreement. Johanness and his dog, Elliott, get lost in the fog and the RV ends up stopping on Wham's property. Miss Chatty, up in age, vows to build a library before she dies. And she runs the Giant Possum Hotline. Pastor Momar drives an Escalade and he and Elizabeth live in a mountain chalet "parsonage." The Giant Possum, who lives in the Big Bog, does what giant possums do; stays mostly hidden. Johanness asks Wham, "Where the hell are we?" "This here's the Rump River Valley. It ain't much but we like it. And we gots some a the best folks that ever was."