These photographs come from our own family albums — Kip, the Real Eight Company, the boats, and the treasure itself, kept and passed down on the very acre where you stay. Captions carry what our family remembers. And the story does not end on this page: each house tells its own chapters of the Treasure Coast, with plenty of photographs to check out throughout both homes during your stay.
Kip Wagner and a young Rex Stocker on the homestead.Kip at home, reviewing silver coins from the recovery.Kip with gold coins from the 1715 Fleet — from the family’s personal slide collection.Kip Wagner with silver wedges brought up from the fleet.Rex Stocker holding the golden dragon, which he found on the beach.Dr. Kip Kelso examining a conglomerate from the wrecks.The Derelict — the Real Eight Company’s salvage boat.A cannon from the 1715 Fleet.A gold coin from the 1715 Fleet, up close.Coins and silver wedges laid out for the record — from a family print dated January 1963.Kip Wagner receiving an honorary doctorate.The family’s copy of National Geographic, January 1965 — “Drowned Galleons Off Florida Yield Spanish Gold.”
