We have many great festival weekends on Ocracoke. Last weekend was the annual Pirate Festival.
Pirate reinactors arrive in hoards late in the week and begin to set up encampments (and sales booths).
Pirates were all over the island and they looked very serious. Still it brought a laugh to see a pirate in a golf cart..
Two sailing ships arrived on the island for the festival. One was a sloop that was the ship of Lt. Maynard of the Virginia Navy…they were the ones who fought and killed Blackbeard on November 22, 1718.
While Maynard’s ship was set up at the docks, the Adventure arrived with Blackbeard in command.
A great battle ensued on the docks!
In the end, Blackbeard was killed and his head chopped off…proof that he was dead.
Now Ocracoke is free of pirates once again…until next year!
We have so many fun festivals on the island…part of the fun of living here.
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