Seaside Vacations

The thunder of a cannon sounded across Teach’s Hole on Ocracoke Island as a crowd dressed in pirate garb gathered to celebrate a solemn anniversary, the death of Blackbeard the Pirate.

The second Annual Blackbeard Pirate Memorial was held on Nov 22nd.  Re-enactors were there to act out the story of the ruthless pirate.  The event is held on the same date of Blackbeard’s death, which happened almost 300 years ago.

There were about 15 pirates at this year’s event, all dressed in authentic pirate attire, including cutlasses and flintlock pistols. They stayed, appropriately enough, at Blackbeard’s Lodge on Ocracoke’s Back Road, where on Saturday night they watched the Disney movie “Blackbeard’s Ghost.” There is also a replica ship, which took some 10,000 hours to build.