RustyNell

OH wish i'd known would have been one more on the list!! Might have saved it from being canceled maybe not. Please let me know next time. i am so busy sometimes I miss these things.

Can't wait to see you all!! Safe Journey's --- on your way into me open arms!! XOXOXOX Hurricane -- I intend to give Mad Dog a run fer the championship me self- and Aye mate! ... I've been practicin' --- ask me husband! There are first times fer everythin'

Damn... he must have done something really bad to get that job... Poor Nigel..... :blink nothing POOR about it ... He LOVES it!! Crackin the 9!

There are no Matanzas Marauders anymore - Chrispy and i joined the Bone Island Buccaneers so you can take that crew off your list.

So glad!! look forward to seeing you again. CAN"T WAIT!!

by the way if your interested in HEARING it you can listen at http://www.myspace.com/thecrewotwo

I have a slew of "unfit to post" ones I will be singing for the LATE NIGHT pub crowd at PIP. Might consider posting some of the more PG13 ones here after I have debut them... Thanks for starting this... these are great!!!

JUMPIN UP AND DOWN ----JUMPING UP AND DOWN--- and NOT because I have to pee! What more can I say!! I LOVE YA ALL and CAN"T WAIT to see you again!!!

Silkie... I'm not the best cook... but I'm pretty darn good. Would be more than happy to help with a couple of meals. CAN'T WAIT

The first few years I hardly had any accent at all, and no one seemed to mind - I did try to throw in some nautical terminology into my speech as would be natural of a sailor (that was fairly easy for me having been in the Navy) here are a few glossaries if you really want to do some home work - still I promise you by the end of the weekend you'll find the lingo creeping into your everyday speech... before long your co-workers and neighbors are going to wonder what your up to LOL read this a few times and you'll find ways to work these terms into everyday conversation: http://users.aol.com/sailgower/lexicon.html this is a good one has more of the "pirate" specific slang: http://www.thepiratesrealm.com/pirate%20talk.html Oh and should you really want to work on an accent I found reading this helpful: though eventually I chose to go more Cornish with my character -- t a lot of sailor were from Bristol it was a really large port.. reading this dictionsry a tongue twister at first.. http://www.thatbebristle.co.uk/dictionary/ and if you want to listen to different accents I googled - British Regional Accents Audio Sample, here's one of the many: http://web.ku.edu/idea/europe/england/england.htm And don't kill yourself getting ready - getting there is half the fun.. come play with us and you'll find the hang of it in no time. Rusty

ahhh.... you could make a right killing charging by the minute for a shower Callenish. Last year was so chilly at night I was tempted to bathe wrapped in a wool blanket.

Ha, little Raigen gave him a good glare. I need to upload the picture of it. I bet she scared the livin daylights out of him... LOL .. tis true, had she cried he's have turned tail and run

Captain Sterling.... I must admit, since joinin the crew o the Bloodlust, I be seein' more wee ones burst inta tears at the mere sight o' me than 'er before. They be a right bad influence on ol' Rusty and i loves em' fer it.

The mute quote made Chrispy (my hubby) laugh, he said "Damn, if only....." ---MEN!! I'll work with ye on it aye?? If we lets im git a word in they only manage to gets us in trouble aye? I'm in Fort Myers meself right now? feel free to send me your number in a message and we'll chat. Rusty

Pyracy Pubers who want to take the express get in touch with me personally and i might be able to work out a group rate. The Key West Express and Bone Island Buccaneers, along with the help of the Callahan's just did a marketing push to get more people from SWFL to go down for PIP to enjoy the festivities. round-trip booked 8 days in advance is 124.00, full price is 154.00 If the campaign goes as well as we hope... I MAY be able to get some kind of group rate for re-enactors. No promises- but I'll see what i can do it all depends on the numbers, so please if your interested let me know ASAP. Rusty

HUZZAH - so glad we lead you here..... as well as PIP. Nice to have you on the Pub! - Please go to the PIP sight and get in touch with Harry at Fort Zach there are re-enactor registration forms you can fill out on the sight and let him know who you are..what you have and how much room you'll need and he'll find some space for ye. And regarding period correct... Hurricane is right we camouflaged our non period items during the day and it was fine, we all do our best but sometimes when your camping that long comfort is important - no one needs to know there's an inflatable mattress under that burlap bag. If you decide to travel light and take the Ferry down for the Fest? Or are you bring the whole kit and kaboodle? so glad you got our invite... look forward to seeing you there! Rusty Nell Riley Bone Island Buccaneers

For anyone coming from the Tampa/ Clearwater area - I know some people that are getting together to rent a small bus/ large van to Fort Myers and then take the Key West Express Ferry from Fort Myers to KW . Let me know if your interested I'll put you in touch with her. Rusty Nell

where did ya git yer hammock???...mine didnt come with one???... what's a mayan hammock I want one!! (whines and stomps her foot) and a Diosa too (pouts) Did you guys see the PBS thing on the Aztecs and Cortez tonight. pretty cool, Diosa scares me now...lol

There's ...no..beach? They knew we were coming so they sent it out to be cleaned LOL

FANS!!! like are you a rock star LOL! fans.... bah you officer types LOL enjoy your fan I won't begrudge it... oh and uhh sorry about the skinny dipping thing LOL :embarrassed:

Ahoy there Red, nice ta meet ya lass!. I have to agree with everyone in encouragin ya ta stay at the Fort, it truly is half the experience, that fancy hotel room will go wasted, you'll not want to be going back there once you get to the Fort, prying me away at the end of the thing dirty and ragged is near impossible, asking me to leave for a bloody shower WHY thats rediculous, thats what the ocean be for. We look forward to meetin ye, and regarding garb, we run from OH MY GOD IT BLACKBEARD in the FLESH to, is that Errol Flynn? of course there are always a few of those "ooooo girl look at those pink thigh highs!" This festival is all about us, having fun and really living it for a weekend. Can't wait to meet ya! Rusty Nell Riley Bone Island Buccaneers

Rusty Nell Riley's me name, rum's me game. I hail from Cornwall, England, a little town called St Agnes, in the Carrick parish. It's a port town ya see, of fisherman, farmers, and tin miners. Me mate, Dead-eye say's that makes me a bloody cornish hen. bahhh.... HEN!!....I've bloodied him for that I ain't no chicken!. I can hold me own! Saved me pub enough times from skallywags startin a rowe. So don't you be startin any trouble wid me ye see. Singin's another one o me talents, keeps em in me pub fer another grog. And I can soothes em when they be getting to rowdy fer their own good. Like me moder I learned to wield me whiles like they was a sword - woo' em wid a lullaby an they won't see ya coming she say's. So I use me songs when I needs to, especially them sailors, they loves a good sad song to take their mind off the sea. Mum swears its how she ended up wid me bastard of a dad. He woo'd her with them devil sea songs she says. Convinced her to marry him, a man who would always leave her. You sees, me own dad was a merchant sailor, a shanty man. Those sea songs he left me mum wid was me lullaby's so I knows em all. Me ol mum was a farm girl, for she met me dad. From a fairly well off family, but dad drank through her dowry for I was even born. She turned to making spirits to keep him in drink and keep us fed. She always seemed happier when dad was at sea. May ave been the only time money was well enough to feed me and me 6 sisters. So how'd I end up in Port Royal, ye ask? I came ere as a young girl. Mum was gettin up in age, and well me sisters and I wid few men left to marry were becomin a burden she couldn't bare. So I stowed away on a merchant ship at 14 disguised as a boy. I was a fool wantin' the free life of a sailor, ain't no free life at sea! not on a merchant vessel, just hell and back breakin work, and need I mention near 2 years behind the mast... I was starting to show signs of being a girl, if yas know what I mean. So I skipped ship and decided to take my chance in Port Royal alone. Was sure wid me mums recipe's for spirits I'd make me fortune in no time. Sure enough turns out its rum thats in me blood. So ere I am... setting up shop in Port Royal on High Street wid an ear to the skuttlebutt in me pub, looking for my next adventure.

I wrote this song using our crews back story The Ballad of the Bone Island Buccaneers Across endless deserts of sea Sun scorched and cursed men, we be Forever our sails made We're bound to this rough trade We search to unravel the key Reese charted a map long ago To fortune and riches untold The church bound to hide it We swore we would find it and make Reese's treasure our own So dressed as a priest Jai did go Stole the map so we sailed for the pole But the Arch Angel followed and Sterling, he bellowed "Make way, or the locker you'll know" Bloody Spike Pierce ruled the day Through maelstroms, storm squall and spray to the earths frozen center we never surrendered We fought them like hell all the way X marked the spot was Atlantis A temple of gold quite fantastic A tree life eternal both crews now immortal locked in great battles were tested Atlantis destroyed in our haste The mystery now is laid waste We're marked to remember the symbols surrendered in the rubble of that sacred place Our captains left arm be our guide to unravel this secret through time the first to the key is the crew to be free No longer men cursed by the prize. Across endless deserts of sea Sun scorched and cursed men, we be Forever our sails made We're bound to this rough trade We've sailed here for many long years Forever our sails made We're bound to this rough trade as Bone Island Buccaneers. music and lyrics by Terry Lynn Conrads aka Rusty Nell Riley