Cabrillo's ports o' call

[sixtyseven]

Methinks me heard once of revelry on Santa Catalina, but should a man be lookin fer another, less nautical place of bacchanalia, what could he find?

[Jamaica Rose]

Every year round about early October, Two Harbors in Catalina plays host to Buccaneer Days. I haven't been there for several years now, but I hear rather than a true pirate festival, it's more a gathering of boaters who don Halloween-type pirate costumes, wear eye-patches. fly Jolly Rogers, and swill lots of beer.

For other California events, there's the Pirate Festival at the San Juan Capistrano Mission, on the Saturday before Halloween (commemorating the 1818 raid of Hippolyte Bouchard and his crew of pirates), the Gold Coast Pirate Festival in late September, and the Toshiba Tallships Festival in Dana Point, while not a pirate event is very welcoming of pirates. Find out more about these, and other events at:

http://www.noquartergiven.net/calendar.htm

--Jamaica Rose

"Piracy's a dirty job, but someone's gotta do it."