The Billy Bowlegs Festival Treasure Hunt for Special Challenge Coins

Along with the upcoming 68th annual Billy Bowlegs Pirate Festival in May, the pirates are offering a Billy Bowlegs Pirate Treasure Hunt beginning April 17. Treasure seekers all over Fort Walton Beach will be out searching for one of the 150 special challenge coins being hidden in the city.

Information about the upcoming Treasure Hunt may be found at Captain Billy Bowlegs Treasure Hunt website. When the time comes, clues will be shared there, but you can avail yourself of more immediate clues when you sign up to receive special text messages from Captain Billy.

Clues to the hidden coins will be in the form of specially-written rhymes you need to solve to be successful in your hunt. If the search for hidden treasure is too easy, then it takes the fun away from the whole concept of a treasure hunt.

There are rules involved with this Treasure Hunt seekers must abide:

On NO PRIVATE LAND will you find any treasure!

NO DIGGING, DISMANTLING, or HARM…WHATSOEVER!

You are looking for BILLY’S COINS, designed to EXCITE!

They will be hidden BY, ON, UNDER, or IN plain sight!

After successfully finding a coin, register your find to document your found treasure. Doing so puts you in the running to reap another treasure of some sort from one of the $7,000 in prizes for successful treasure hunters. Along with a Grand Prize Drawing for a $1,000 prize package, you may win one of the other offered prizes:

• Mills Heating and Air—$1,274 free maintenance and free in-home air purification system and install.
• Carr’s Floor Trader—$250 gift certificate.
• Emerald Coast Bait and Tackle—$200 tackle and fishing gift basket.
• MarineMax Fort Walton Beach—$600 U.S. Coast Guard SOS boating kit.
• The Edge Seafood Restaurant—$120 for t-shirts, koozies, and a $50 gift card.
• McAlister’s Deli Fort Walton—$1,000 for free sandwich, chips, cookie and drink for EVERY coin found.
• Law Tigers—$500 for Biker Swag Bag with Harley-Davidson merchandise.
• Piggly Wiggly Fort Walton Beach—$300 for 12 $25 gift cards.
• Valparaiso Coca-Cola Bottling Company—$750 Collector’s Coca-Cola Wakeboard.
• Southern Tide Pools—$100 for pool floats and beach kit.
• The Island Resort at Fort Walton Beach—$100 for 4 pool passes.
• Rick’s On The Island—$150 for 3 $50 gift cards.
• Lost Pizza Company Fort Walton Beach—$300 for 12 $25 gift cards.
• The Local Market—$100 for 4 $25 gift cards.
• G.I. Jade Tiki Bar & Bistro—$250 Rum gift basket and a gift card.
• Gulfarium Marine Adventure Park—$500 for 8 general admission tickets.
• MidSouth Bank Fort Walton Beach—$150 Visa gift card.