Captain Hornigold at leisure in Key West

The air's warm, the water's warm, the women are warm, the beer's cold, and there are boats; it doesn't get much better than this...

Pirate movie for the day

There are good pirates and bad pirates, and then there's Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow in The Curse of the Black Pearl... If you haven't seen it (or the following two sequels, Dead Man's Chest and At World's End), arrghh.

Talk like a pirate day

This day, every year, it's International Talk Like a Pirate Day.
The two wackos who started it, Ol' Chumbucket (aka John Baur) and Cap'n Slappy (aka Mark Summers), have released a book, The Pirate Life. Arrgghh...

Pirate City for the day

Searle's Raid reenactment in St. Augustine, Florida in 2004.

Pirate City for the day

Captain Hornigold participating in Searle's Raid on St. Augustine.

Pirate City for the day

Brothers in piracy, Captains Okopnik and Hornigold, in the pub in St. Augustine, drinking heavily and singing ribald chanteys at the top of their lungs.