Castaway Point Moonrise

'Castaway Point Moonrise'  11 x 14 collection of Barbara and Dan Heneghan

Vanished, 2008... this 'funky Florida' spot (my favorites) was, sadly, torn down this year.  It was the site of the unofficial Officers Club for the U.S. Navy during World War II, and the point bears the name due to shipwrecked Spanish sailors from the 1713 Gold Plate Fleet sinking during a massive hurricane, while headed back to Spain.  Some survivors lived out their remaining lives with the native American 'Indians'.  I remember when a 10 pound gold cross was excavated in the late 70's, a few miles south of here, having been placed with its  departed owner hundreds of years earlier, in one of their burial mounds. 

The name comes as a tribute to a dear friend of Gary and Rene Nungesser and mine's, who loved this place, and died tragically in a diving accident in the Bahamas in 2000, way too young.