Oak Island & Lunenburg June 24, 2019 |

Oak Island is located about 50 miles south and east of Halifax and made famous by the History Channel program of the same name. For over 200 yers people have been hunting treasure believed to be deposited by pirates or the Knight’s Templar. We were unable to book a tour on the island itself but we did cross the causeway and visit the Interpretive center. The center had many of the artifacts that have been found which we have seen on the many episodes that we watched on TV. We talked to several other visitors and they suggested that we take a boat tour. I called and booked a late afternoon tour. After taking pictures and buying souvenirs we left the island to go to Lunenburg and the Fisheries museum.

Lunenburg is a working fishing village and tourist Mecca. It is home to many shops, restaurants and the Fisheries Museum of The Atlantic. We didn’t go shopping but we did visit the museum which was excellent. In one area of the museum we could hold star fish and other small sea creatures which was really cool. The museum did a great job walking you through the history of fishing in the Atlantic from the ships, equipment and the people, including what it meant for life on land. One interesting focus was “bottle fishing” which is what they called rum running during prohibition.

After the museum we headed back to Oak Island for our boat tour. One other couple joined us along with Captain Tony. Tony is a certified diver and besides being a diver on the Oak Island show he works all over the world on various dive projects. Besides giving us the “inside” scoop about Oak Island he told us many stories about dives he’s been on and showed us many artifacts that he’s collected. During the tour he talked about the Lagina brothers owning 75% of Oak Island and other behind the scenes tidbits. The tour took us right to where they were filming the show. Rick Lagina was being filmed while we sat in the boat about 300 feet away. Rick waved to us and we slowly drifted by. We got a sneak preview of what they were searching for on June 24. It was very cool and we can’t wait to see the episode.