Oak Island Treasure UK meeting - exclusive video

At the weekend, my website, Oak Island Treasure, was eight years old!

To celebrate this anniversary, I arranged to meet with friends and members of our online community in London, UK.

What better place to meet than the Captain Kidd pub - a wonderful spot on the River Thames built on the site where Kidd was hanged for piracy.

Despite being thousands of miles from Oak Island, we were able to rouse a loose connection to our favourite little island.

I had received requests from quite a few people who expressed sadness that they would miss out on this get together. Some asked if a podcast or video could be made available so you could at least have a flavour of the afternoon.

I managed to make this very short film showing London and the district of Wapping where we met. You'll see from the video that it's an area still dominated by old wharves and docks with many nautical connections still evident in the buildings and place names.

I was unable to capture our actual discussions on film but I hope this will give you an opportunity to see an interesting area of London, some of the UK Oak Island contingent and the chance to giggle at my British accent.

Today's the day for skullduggery, swashbuckling and Oak Island!

It's a beautiful, sunny day in London and I'm getting ready to head out to The Captain Kidd pub in Wapping for the UK Oak Island meeting. I'm hoping other fans of the world's greatest treasure hunt will be joining me for a spot of lunch and plenty of discussion over our favourite hole in the ground!

For those who don't know, Captain Kidd was a privateer during the late 1600's who was famously hanged for piracy at the site where the pub stands today. For many fans of the Oak Island mystery, he's the favourite originator of the Money Pit.

I'll be keeping you up to date on Twitter with how the day progresses, so if you're interested, no matter how far away from London you may be, you can stay tuned: http://www.twitter.com/OakIsland

Oak Island fans unite in New England!

Do you live in New England, USA?

Are you a self confessed Oak Island fan?

Then get Monday October 5th in your diary!

I'll be visiting the area on vacation and a few Oak Island friends have suggested getting together for something to eat and a couple of beers. If we concentrate, there's no reason why we can't have the Money Pit mystery solved by 8pm!

We hope to be there from 5pm, so if you fancy joining us for what I'm assured will be tasty pub grub in Maine's first brew pub, it would be wonderful to meet you.

I've been assured Gritty McDuff's in Portland is the perfect place for us to solve the Oak Island mystery, on a full stomach, of course - http://www.grittys.com/portland.php

Any questions, please drop me an email (oakislandtreasure@gmail.com).

Looking forward to meeting some of you soon!

Jo - http://www.oakislandtreasure.co.uk

Oak Island Treasure UK meeting

It's getting to that time of year again - the annual meeting of UK Oak Island fans!

The event will be taking place on Saturday 22nd August, the date closest to Oak Island Treasure's eighth birthday. Do come and celebrate with us if you can.

This will be our fourth meeting at The Captain Kidd - a pub built on the site of the pirate's final moments before he was hanged.

Last year, we made good progress and felt we were close to solving something - what it was, I'm not sure, but the clues were coming thick and fast.

We'll be talking treasure and piracy over a cheeky pint or two, and aim to have the mystery solved by 4pm.

Here are the details:

When: Saturday 22nd August 2009 from midday

Where: The Captain Kidd Pub, Wapping, London, E1W 2NE

Map: view here