"Would you like to come to a pirate festival?" asked the e-mail from Dan and Fiona. There's really only one answer to that question. Soon we were in their car heading up to Vallejo to see what was going on.
Who knew so many Californians favoured the buccaneer lifestyle? Hundreds of eye-patched, cutlass-carrying people milled about, "arrrrrr"ing at each other and purchasing all manner of pirate gear. A pirate band (a Celtic band moonlighting, we thought) entertained the crowd with such sea-going classics as Whisky in the Jar. I have seldom seen so many strange people all in one place.
Yep, this is it!
Bring your own parrot.
Normal people be warned too.
Family fun!
The band.
Pirates come in all shapes and sizes.
Pirate dinner re-enactment. Not that exciting.
There are a lot of pirates in NorCal.
Finally, some civilisation in all this chaos!
Y'all come back now, y'arrrrrrr.
