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Re: Saba Rock Pirate
[Re: GaryNewHampshire]
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Re: Saba Rock Pirate
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GaryNewHampshire said: Its was a three foot pirate that floated around in the tank in a three foot wooden boat. Sounds like Barnacle Bill <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Grin.gif" alt="" />
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Re: Saba Rock Pirate
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Bert sold Drakes Anchorage and moved to Saba Rock in1970.
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. - Mark Twain
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Re: Saba Rock Pirate
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I admit to getting a little long in the tooth, occasionally having some trouble finding my car keys, but I don't remember any substantial improvements on Saba Rock in the early 80's. According to http://www.sportdiver.com/destinations/british-virgin-islands/last-pirate-caribbean, "In l989, Hurricane Hugo blew through the BVI and did enough damage to temporarily kill off the dive business, so Kilbride opened the Pirates Pub on Saba Rock." If that's correct, then in the early '80s there wasn't much on Saba Rock except maybe Kilbride's driftwood house and dive shop, so perhaps you could forgive me for not remembering the improvements from so many years age. I also have a picture from 1980 which sort of bears that out, but I can't figure out how to attach it.
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Re: Saba Rock Pirate
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rita_irvine said: Pirates Pub was on Saba long ago. Bert Kilbride had his home , dive business and the pub was underneath. My hubby lived on VG in the early 70's and it was there then. We went to it in 1985 and it had been there many years before that. It was very much a crusty dive and just perfect. Do you remember the Bitter End when they didn't have a real restaurant but an outside bar with an electric hot dog machine? The bartender was a lady who smoked cigars. BTW the Pirates Pub was started around the 90's if I remember correctly.
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Re: Saba Rock Pirate
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CottageGirl said: (all adults this time and more into happy hour than my college kids were - shocker, right?!) Actually I'm shocked that the college kids wouldn't be just as in to the happy hour as the adults!! Or even more so since the drinking age in the BVI is only 18.
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