Arriving at Martin's Cove, Kelly's IslandLegend has it Kelly's Island was frequented by pirates in the 17th century. Cuper's Cove, not far from Kelly's Island, was settled in 1610 and the colonists there reported skirmishes with the pirate Peter Easton. Where there's pirates, there's pirate treasure and there are in fact legends of treasure that's supposed to be burried on the island.
When people think of pirates I believe they think automatically of the Carribean. Newfoundland is considerably north of that, so what were they doing here? It might be well be to bury their treasure here, far away from the watchful eyes of the British navy who was trying to capture them.
There might be treasure burried here but Stan and myself weren't concerned with that on this day. The treasure on this day was the paddle we had paddling around in the middle of Conception Bay.
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