This was the strangest prompt of last week, but that first sentence just popped right into my head and off I went...What FUN!

I AM THE PLACE IN WHICH SOMETHING HAS OCCURRED...


I’ve moved the sand around in the cove, not an easy job to hide where a boat has beached. Especially his.

All that weight you know. The chest alone would have weighed a ton, then you must add the six burley men he’d brought with him to dig the hole.

Aye, I know he was a large blustering chunk of a man. I’ve heard enough of the stories. Fact is I’ve felt his weight me self, striding along my beaches and chopping through my poor lovely tropical forest. But I also know he was vain and abhorred physical labor, heard him say so right here. Wasn’t it my skin he ordered his men to dig through?

I watched him leaning there against that tree, his cutlass in his hand, his fancy buccaneer’s hat with the feathery plumes waving in my breeze. Probably took it off some Spaniard.

I tell you I felt absolutely violated that he’d chosen to bury his treasure on me. The worst bit though was after the chest was buried and his men had carefully filled in the hole, he drenched my soil in their blood. Sliced em down like coconuts with that cutlass then left em to rot here. The stench was simply horrific for ages; it took my assorted creatures and insects forever to clean up that mess.

I’d thought that was quite traumatic enough but it seems the bugger was rumored to have left a map with a big X painted on it to mark the spot. Now it’s been more than two hundred years and I am still suffering fools and dreamers poking and prodding over every square inch of me still trying to find that chest.

So let me just set the record straight, and I would appreciate it if you would spread the word to the rest of you humans. Although it is true that I am the island that Blackbeard buried his treasure on, IT IS NO LONGER HERE.

You see, he came back within a few short years, had his new crew dig it up and carted it away on his ship. No, I do not know which direction he sailed away to. I was just glad the damn thing was gone.

Now I’ll thank you to get off me and take that bloody sign with you.

Blackbeard’s Treasure is NOT here.