September 19

A Pirates Grave for Pirates Day

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A good friend of mine, Stuart is an avid and adventurous traveler. A few years ago he went to Madagascar where he took this picture. An interesting bit of pirate trivia is that Madagascar became  a pirate stronghold. They used it as base to raid the  East India Company ships returning from the East  heading for Cape of Good Hope. Not sure exactly who this was but lets pretend its William Kidd. Argh!

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