Pirates Week

Smiley the Pirate
Originally uploaded by Chalkstar.

So, I'm in the Cayman Islands now, and I have walked into the biggest festival of the year, Pirates Week !!

Most countries commemorate independence day or some religious occasion or some war or something that happened, and make that into their national day.

Not here.

Caymans is about 2 things:

1. Money
2. The Sea

Pirate Princess
Originally uploaded by Chalkstar.

So, they decided that they werent making enough money in the start of November. Therefore, they invented their national celebration, and called it Pirates Week. I suppose they called it Pirates Week instead of Pirates Day because you can make more money in a week than you can in a day.

This really is a strange place. 40% of the island are people on work permits who have come to make money. There is virtually no unemployment, and no tax, so everybody has plenty of cash to blow.

Drugs are seriously prohibited.

Elvis McPirate
Originally uploaded by Chalkstar.

The net result of all of this is that everyone gets drunk at night and then rolls home to sleep it off before work the next day.

There is also almost no violent crime.

And almost no rubbish.


As I said.....this is a strange place....but I like it !!!