In Tampa, Florida a pirate festival began in 1904 called the Gasparilla Pirate Festival, and the festival is celebrated each year. During the festival a fictitious, “piratechnic” sea battle is created over Hillsborough Bay between the City of Tampa, and the Pirates of Ye Mystic Krewe of Gasparilla.
While planning your Florida vacation you may also want to consider a stay in an Orlando Vacation Home, centered around fun theme parks, and sparkling white sandy beaches. Orlando is the number one tourist destination in the world, and boasts 7 major theme parks. There is close access to Lake Eola, and you can enjoy festivals, outdoor concerts, or even a gondola ride on the lake. The sports complex, theater, and opera are all located centrally to expand your imagination with many possible entertainment venues.
Are you planning to attend the Gasparilla Pirate Festival or Children's Parade? Would you like to let our fans know how you enjoyed the festival? If so, please bookmark this page, and then come back and comment on this post to tell us how you liked the event. Or, if you attended the Gasparilla Pirate Festival or Children's Parade this year, we would like to hear about your experience as well.
Mark your calendar to purchase your tickets in November. You won't want to miss this event! Be sure to go to the event dressed in your best pirate clothing, costume or attire. For some of you that may be your daily manner of style, but if not here's some ideas for pirate attire and costumes. Arrr!
Monday
Sunday
Sailing Vacation Charters for Your Wedding
Many romantic moments are captured by the sea, and it can become the perfect location for a wedding. Although many have experienced a wedding by the seashore, why not expound on the idea with the bride and groom escaping to the sea for their honeymoon aboard a chartered sailing vessel? Surrounded by the romance of the waves and water, a couple would surely begin their marriage in bliss with a sailing vacation honeymoon.
What are some ideas that could be implemented for the guests of a wedding by the seashore? Let's say you plan to get married in New England. You could serve your guest a fresh traditional seafood clam bake at the beach. To provide for a clam bake, dig a two or three foot deep pit lined with rocks, and build a wood fire top. Or, steam clams and provisions on a stove top and haul them to the beach. Fill buckets with shells and seafood-shaped candies at each table for fun favors. There are many treasures to choose from to do personalized wedding favors in a seashore theme. For example, some items to select from are beach candle favors, favors with dolphins, sea salts and beach candles.
Once the bride and groom are ready to make their escape to sea they could board a beautiful sailing vessel to spend a private honeymoon upon the water. There are plenty of sailing charters to choose from for your romantic get-a-way. Your adventure at sea could even include placing a message in a bottle proclaiming your love and your wedding date, and releasing it into the ocean. Each year thereafter you could go on a quest in search of your bottle with your message. Here's one idea for sailing vacations in the New England area:
Sailing Vacations on the Arabella, Shenandoah, or the Olivia
If you were wanting to plan a sailing vacation wedding, we hope that will inspire you with some ideas to start creating your dream wedding and honeymoon. Bon voyage!
What are some ideas that could be implemented for the guests of a wedding by the seashore? Let's say you plan to get married in New England. You could serve your guest a fresh traditional seafood clam bake at the beach. To provide for a clam bake, dig a two or three foot deep pit lined with rocks, and build a wood fire top. Or, steam clams and provisions on a stove top and haul them to the beach. Fill buckets with shells and seafood-shaped candies at each table for fun favors. There are many treasures to choose from to do personalized wedding favors in a seashore theme. For example, some items to select from are beach candle favors, favors with dolphins, sea salts and beach candles.
Once the bride and groom are ready to make their escape to sea they could board a beautiful sailing vessel to spend a private honeymoon upon the water. There are plenty of sailing charters to choose from for your romantic get-a-way. Your adventure at sea could even include placing a message in a bottle proclaiming your love and your wedding date, and releasing it into the ocean. Each year thereafter you could go on a quest in search of your bottle with your message. Here's one idea for sailing vacations in the New England area:
Sailing Vacations on the Arabella, Shenandoah, or the Olivia
If you were wanting to plan a sailing vacation wedding, we hope that will inspire you with some ideas to start creating your dream wedding and honeymoon. Bon voyage!
Saturday
Get a Degree to Talk Like a Pirate?
International Talk Like a Pirate Day is September 19th each year. If you don't have the talent to talk like one, maybe you can work on your pirate voice by taking some classes. Say what? Where are you going to take classes to talk like a Pirate? Can you get a degree for that? Of course not, but I just want to see if I can get your attention, and encourage you to practice so you can talk like a pirate.
Wednesday
Depoe Bay, Oregon
Last summer we took a nice trip to Depoe Bay, Oregon where the waves of the sea crash upon the rocks. If you miss the ocean and don't have a chance to travel to the sea anytime soon, enjoy our video below. Have fun with your visit to the sea!
Sunday
Johnny Depp Pirate Impersonation
This guy did a pretty good job of impersonating Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow! Have fun watching the video.
Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam in Captain Hareblower
Were you a fan of Bugs Bunny or Yosemite Sam? Here's a classic pirate cartoon you're sure to find fun! Arrrr!
Thursday
Jack Mason's Visit to the North Sea
It's always interesting to read a story from an earlier time when there was yet much exploration to do. One such story is below as this sailor recalls an encounter with an iceberg:
If you should go a great way north, you would find it very cold. The further you go north, the colder it is. I went so far that way one time, that I got almost frozen. The ship I sailed in came close to an iceberg once, and we all thought for a while that the ship would strike the iceberg. If it had struck, it would have been broken all in pieces, and we should have been drowned or frozen, every one of us. God was kind and good to us, though. The wind was blowing very hard, and right toward the iceberg. But just as we had got almost up to it, the wind changed, and blew us away from it.
But I forgot that you do not know what an iceberg is. It is a great hill of ice. In the North Sea, these ice-hills are often as high as your church, and sometimes a great deal higher. These hills of ice are floating along the water there, and when it is foggy or dark, the sailors cannot always see them. So sometimes the ship strikes them, and is dashed to pieces. Sometimes it gets between two of these ice-hills, and gets crushed, as if it was a little boat. Then the men in the ship have to get out, and jump upon one of the ice-hills. But they are pretty likely to be frozen to death then.
Jack Mason - The Old Sailor
By Theodore Thinker
1850
If you should go a great way north, you would find it very cold. The further you go north, the colder it is. I went so far that way one time, that I got almost frozen. The ship I sailed in came close to an iceberg once, and we all thought for a while that the ship would strike the iceberg. If it had struck, it would have been broken all in pieces, and we should have been drowned or frozen, every one of us. God was kind and good to us, though. The wind was blowing very hard, and right toward the iceberg. But just as we had got almost up to it, the wind changed, and blew us away from it.
But I forgot that you do not know what an iceberg is. It is a great hill of ice. In the North Sea, these ice-hills are often as high as your church, and sometimes a great deal higher. These hills of ice are floating along the water there, and when it is foggy or dark, the sailors cannot always see them. So sometimes the ship strikes them, and is dashed to pieces. Sometimes it gets between two of these ice-hills, and gets crushed, as if it was a little boat. Then the men in the ship have to get out, and jump upon one of the ice-hills. But they are pretty likely to be frozen to death then.
Jack Mason - The Old Sailor
By Theodore Thinker
1850
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