July 2008July 2008 July 2008
Arrrrrr!!! Its Summer in the Caribbean
Fifteen men on a dead man's chest, yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum, drink and the devil had done for the rest yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum.
On the South side of the Sir Francis Drake Channel and just to the East of Peter Islan is the Cay named Dead Chest. In the days of the yore a "dead man'd chest" was the name for a coffin, the putline of which you can make out when viewing the island from the Northwest. Look even longer and the coffin appears to coontain a shrouded body with a raised head. As long ago as the late 1700's the cay's moniker was a Dead Chest, clearly marked on a Jeffrey's 18th century chart of the Virgin Islands. Folklore has it that the infamous pirate Blackbeard marooned fifteen men on the cay with nothing but a bottle of rum. Some apparently tried to swim and half mile to Peter Island's eastern cove but didn't make it, giving this beautiful [palm lined bay the ominous name, "Dead Man's Bay".
HAPPY JULY...................................... |
