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Coastal Companion

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Things to do in Georgia in October

September 23, 2011 by Susanne Talentino

When it’s October, fall festival season is in full swing. October  means seafood festivals, lots of football, fall festivals, Oktoberfest and then we top it all off with Halloween.

Pirate Fest, Tybee Island, GA

 

Oktoberfest on the River – Savannah, GA

September 30 – October 3, 2011
This year the Oktoberfest actually starts in September. Savannah has a wonderful Oktoberfest on Riverstreet. This festival has everything you expect from beer garden, to Oompah band and Wienerdog race. Visit our special events page for Oktoberfest on the River

Tybee Island Pirate Fest -Tybee Island, GA

October 6 – 9, 2011
Quickly change from lederhosen to peg leg and eye patch because as soon as the Oompah band stops playing, the pirates take over the whole island of Tybee. It’s time for the popular Pirate Fest on October 6 – 9, 2011. Check out our special events page for Tybee Island Pirate Fest.

Hand on learning

 

CoastFest 2011 – Brunswick, GA

October 1, 2011

Learn more about the coastal landscape, the marshes, and the life in the ocean in this very special annual festival perfect for families with young children. Touch tank, arts & crafts, living history events and lots of learning for free. Read more here.

 

 

Rock Shrimp Festival – St Marys, GA

October 1, 2011
This annual festival celebrates the Rock shrimp with a big party in downtown St. Marys. Lots of fun for the whole family with parade, 5K run, arts and crafts vendors, live entertainment and more. The highlight is of course the rock shrimp dinner! Watch our video from the festival here.

 

The Great Ogechee Seafood Festival – Richmond Hill, GA

October 14-16, 2011
There’s another seafood festival in Georgia in October. This time, head to Richmond Hill outside Savannah for lots of fun for the whole family. Find out more here – The Great Ogechee Seafood Festival.

 

Rockin’ Brunswick Stewbilee – Brunswick, GA

Shalom Y'All Jewish Food Festival

 October 22, 2011

There are so many fun food festivals on the Georgia coast in the month of October. This is one of our favorites – the Brunswick Stewbilee. This event is complete with Pooch Parade, arts & crafts and of course a Brunswick Stew competition. You can find out more about the event here.

Shalom Y’all – Jewish Food Festival – Savannah, GA

October 30, 2011
There is another food festival in Georgia this month. This festival takes place in Forsyth Park. Come explore Jewish food. Find out more on our special page for Shalom Y’all – Jewish Food Festival – Savannah

 

Savannah Film Festival

October 29 – November 5, 2011
This festival is getting bigger and bigger every year. The festival kicks off at the end of October, check out our special events page for Savannah Film Festival.

 

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Datil Pepper Festival

Georgia vs. Florida Football Classic

Concourse d’Elegance – Hilton Head Island, SC

Talk Like a Pirate Day

September 17, 2010 by Susanne Talentino

It’s has to be one of the silliest ideas of the century. Who in their right mind would ever come up with the idea to start a holiday where you Talk Like a Pirate?

Actually two friends, John Baur and Mark Summers, did just that. The idea was born in Albany, Oregon, which as far as we know is not nationally known for its relationship to pirates. This is what happened.

Mark Summers ("Cap'n Slappy") and John Baur ("Ol' Chumbucket"), founders of Talk Like a Pirate Day.

John and Mark were playing racquetball when, for reasons that aren’t clear to either of them now, they started insulting each other in pirate lingo. They realized it was a lot of fun and one of them said: “We should have a Talk Like a Pirate Day”. They decided to start Talk Like a Pirate Day, and picked September 19th because it is Summers’ ex-wife’s birthday. And the story could have ended there, if it hadn’t been for Dave Barry, who mentioned it in his nationally syndicated newspaper column and then Talk Like a Pirate Day took off.

All around the world and even hundreds of miles above it, people celebrate International Talk Like a Pirate Day every September 19. It’s been celebrated by millions of people on all seven continents – yes, even at the South Pole – and on the International Space Station!

The two friends – now go by the pirate personas of Ol’ Chumbucket and Cap’n Slappy have swashed their buckles from the Gulf of Mexico to the Puget Sound, from Los Angeles to Chicago to Philadelphia. They’ve performed at a glamorous Las Vegas
resort, at libraries, bookstores, schools and at several seedy bars.

This year the guys will celebrate the holiday more than 5,000 miles apart. Cap’n Slappy will be in Alaska as guest of the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. Ol’ Chumbucket moved in 2008 to a sunny island in the Caribbean and can’t think of a reason to leave. www.talklikeapirate.com

There are a number of events around the coast celebrating Talk Like a Pirate Day. Many pubs and bars have special celebrations. 

 

The Pirate Museum in St. Augustine, Florida

September 19, 2011

Starting at 5 p.m. on September 19, The Pirate Museum courtyard overlooking the Castillo de San Marcos–built because of devastating pirate raids–will be transformed into a lively pirate stronghold with:

*    Pirate Soul face painting
*    Sword fighting demonstrations
*    Live pirate music
*    Storytelling and magic by Captain William Mayhem, the Pirate Magician of St. Augustine
*    Talk Like A Pirate contest 
*    Don’t Walk The Plank Trivia Game

Attendees also receive 25 percent off of museum admission during the event, which runs until 8 p.m. 

Regular admission for adults is $11.99 and for kids 5 to 12 years old is $6.99.

St. Augustine Pirate & Treasure Museum

12 S Castillo Drive
St. Augustine, FL 32084

(877) GO-PLUNDER (877.467.5863)

 

These pirates walk and talk. Fernandina Pirate Club.

 

Talking Like a Pirate – The Beginner’s Course

(Excerpt from “Pirattitude!” So You Wanna Be a Pirate? Here’s How!” by John “Ol’ Chumbucket” Baur and Mark “Cap’n Slappy” Summers, published in 2005 by New American Library. All rights reserved.)


“Aarr!” is one of what we call “the Five As.” We call them this because that’s the letter they begin with, and our crack mathematics team assures us that there are five of them.
These exclamations are the glue that binds together pirate lingo. Even if you don’t know a bunghole from a broadside or a mizzenmast from a maidenhead, you can still give your conversation a little pirate panache by injecting these exclamations into yer landlubber lexicon.
Avast – Stop and give attention. It can be used in a sense of surprise, “Whoa! Get a load of that!” when a beautiful woman walks into the room. “Avast! Check out the bowsprit on that fine beauty!” you might say.
Ahoy – “Hello!” Any inference beyond “Hello!” is simply vocal inflection and has nothing to do with the real meaning of the word.
Aye – “Why, yes, I agree most heartily with everything you just said or did.”
Aye aye – “I’ll get right on that, sir, as soon as my break is over.” We’ve never heard any similarly colorful expressions for “no,” perhaps because pirates were the type you didn’t want to say no to.
Arr – This one is often confused with arrgh, which is of course the sound you make when you sit on a belaying pin. “Arr!” can mean, variously, “yes,” “I agree,” “I’m happy,” “I’m enjoying this beer,” “My team is winning,” “My team is losing,” “I saw that television show, it sucked,” “I am here and alive” and “That was a clever remark you or I just made.” And those are just a few of the myriad possibilities of “Arrr!” It’s a little bit like the pirate version of “Oy,” that indispensable Yiddish word that has almost as many meanings as there are ways to pronounce it.

Upcoming Pirate Events on the Coast

Tybee Island Pirate Fest, takes place October 6 – 9, 2011. The party has grown this year with multiple concerts, fireworks, “Buccaneer Ball”, Thieves market, Pirate Victory Parade and Kid’s Zone.

St. Augustine Pirate Gathering
St Augustine Pirate Gathering takes place October 28 – 30, 2011 at St Francis Field in St. Augustine, Florida.


Tybee Island Pirate Fest

Pirate Parade at Isle of Eight Flags Shrimp Festival

May 3, 2010 by Susanne Talentino

The Isle of Eight Flags shrimp festival in Fernandina, Amelia Island, Florida,  draws a huge crowd every year, but the festivities kick off early with a fun and festive parade. Here you’ll see all kinds of floats and costumes,from dancing shrimp, to dancers, live bands, music, soldiers and of course the always popular pirates. This time they even managed to scare our camera man. Check out this video and you’ll understand what I’m talking about.
(Click here to read our previous post about the Fernandina Shrimp Festival)

Pirate Fest – Tybee Island, Georgia

September 28, 2009 by Susanne Talentino

Did you participate in “Talk Like a Pirate Day” on September 19th, or did you receive some strange emails or voice mails? There is actually a special day to speak pirate, and they even have their own website for it – www.talklikeapirate.com.
But if you missed out on all the fun, here is your chance to act like a pirate.

Tybee Island LighthousePirates will invade Tybee Island, Georgia, when one of the most popular events, The 5th Annual Tybee Island Fest, takes place October 8 – 10, 2009. The party has grown this year with multiple concerts, fireworks, “Buccaneer Ball”, Thieves market, Pirate Victory Parade and Kid’s Zone.

The celebration kicks off already on Thursday October 8, at the Crab Shack, where the Pirate Fest King and Queen will be crowned. Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 a the door.

On Friday, the pirate invasion begins near the Tybee Pier and Pavilion. All pirates can party and dance to music from Roy and the Circuit Breakers and The Train Wrecks. The Thieves Market is open where you can find treasures of all kinds. The Little Matey’s Cove is filled with activities for the younger crowd. Then at 7.30 pm thundering cannons will mark the beginning of the fireworks extravaganza. Later The Eric Culberson Blues Band and Big Engine will take the stage.

The fun continues at South Beach on Saturday morning, and then at 3 p.m. the pirates and their buccaneers will gather for the big Pirate Victory Parade down Butler Avenue. Along the way, the pirates will share their treasures of trinkets and doubloons with the crowd. There’s live music all day and at 9 p.m., the world famous Marshall Tucker Band will take the stage.

Tickets to Pirate Fest are $10 for 2-day weekend admission to the festival area and children 12 & under are free. Visit www.tybeepiratefest.com to purchase advance tickets.

tybee-island-pirate

St Augustine Pirate Gathering

November 5, 2008 by Susanne Talentino

Avast, me hearties! T’is a celebration of the Golden Age of Piracy in old St. Augustine. Three days of swashbuckling fun begins on Friday evening as pirates from around Florida wander the streets of the old city. On Saturday, the swashbuckling day begins with a pirate parade along San Marco Avenue at 10 a.m., followed by a skirmish among the at the redoubt, located across from Castillo de San Marcos, then continues up St. George Street to the Plaza de La Constitucion at 11:45 a.m. On Saturday and Sunday from 2 to 5 p.m., the Fountain of Youth Archeological Park, where the pirates will be encamped, there will be fun Pirate lore, magic, shanties, a thieves market and plenty of swashbuckling demonstrations. There will even be a Bucaneers Bash filled with plenty of yo-ho-ho and of slicing of the mainbrace that begins at 6 p.m. (adults only). On Sunday beginning at 10:30 a.m., there will be a Pirate’s court, a comedic reflection of all complaints addressing the preceding evening’s frivolities.

Downtown St. Augustine and Fountain of Youth Archaeological Park
Saturday: Pirate Parade – 10 a.m.
Pirate Skirmish 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Pirate Encampment and Thieves Market open noon to 5 p.m. (Saturday and Sunday)
Saturday Bucaneer Bash 6 p.m.
Sunday: Pirate Court 10:30 a.m.
Admission to Fountain of Youth Park is $7.50 for adults & $4.50 for children 6 – 12. Bucaneer Bash Tickets are $35 per person (21 and older only)
Friday, Nov. 14 – Sunday, Nov. 16, 2008

11 Magnolia Street, St. Augustine, FL
www.pirategathering.com

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