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ATLANTIS - WHAT DO THINK?

Atlantis!
One of my favorite subjects. What a great “legend”, or is it a legend?
As
you can imagine, I did quite a bit of research on the subject while writing
Atlantis Vortex. However, I must admit growing up in Florida, so close to the
Devil’s Triangle, with a constant supply of stories about that mysterious place
kept my imagination busy.
Having
lived on the central east coast of Florida, some call the Treasure Coast and well
inside the Devil’s Triangle, or the Bermuda Triangle helped. This is where the
famous Spanish Treasure Fleet was lost in a monstrous hurricane in 1715.
Today’s treasure hunters comb the waters of this area.
Currently
there is an excavation going on just off Ft. Pierce’s beach in thirty to fifty
feet of water on a sunken Spanish Galleon. Damned, if it is not right over an
area my family use to snorkel. We never saw a clue it was there, and no other
snorkelers or divers did either. Why? Bad Luck? No, just one of the more recent
hurricanes revealed it, and of course, a treasure hunter researched the area
and had the detection gear to locate it. Sometimes a beachcomber will find a
piece-of-eight of a gold coin. We weren’t so lucky.
All
the stories of shipwrecks, mysterious disappearances of boats, and aircraft,
together with the bizarre tales of compasses that go haywire in other nautical
vessels and aircrafts lend to the aura of the area. On the north side of the
cut of Jupiter inlet, stands one of the last remaining lighthouses on the East
Coast of the U.S. (A cut is just that, a
place where the barrier island has been cut, dredged, and the sides supported
by huge chunks of rocks to keep the sea from reclaiming the opening of the
inlet into the inter-coastal waterway.) As with most lighthouses, it stands as
navigation landmark and it too has a spooky story that goes with it. It is
supposed to be haunted. Every night the light in the famous red lighthouse
comes on to warn ships and boats as far away as fifty miles out to sea that the
water becomes shallow near the coast of Florida. However, closer in, on the
land around the majestic beacon the windows open to let light into the
structure. A glow is sometimes seen, emitted through windows on different
levels, as if someone with a lantern were walking up or down the inside stairs.
The tale says it is the children of one of the lighthouse’s previous operators
that were killed there. It does not say how.
When
we became residence of this area, both my husband and I had already dove
several of the reefs and the shipwreck, the Mitzpah
that is sunken in ninety feet of water just past the inlet. After our
daughter was born, we pretty much became snorkelers, and stuck to the beautiful
reefs, enjoying them by free diving in the crystal blue-green waters. Many of
the reefs come right up to the beach and people hunt for lobster in snorkel
gear. In this area are also large stones that appear to be cut into wide
roadways like the ones found in about the same depth of water off Bimini back
in the sixties and are considered to possibly be an indication of lost
Atlantis.
Much
of this material added to the writing of Atlantis Vortex. If you caught my blog
on The Romance Studio of January 31st, it tells the entire story;
this is a shorter post.
Now
that I have let you all in on some of how Atlantis Vortex came about, it may
give you a little insight on the area most of it is written about. The setting
and area influences the attitude of the characters and their perceptions.
Atlantis
Vortex, from its conception is a special book for me. Therefore, I decided to
celebrate Atlantis Vortex’s anniversary month.

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CHANGES ARE IN THE AIR!
Stay Tuned~