Chilly Concho Cove Merry Christmas Pirates! I hope you all are enjoying your families, whether by land or sea (some of our notorious pirates are spending their holiday diving!) More power to you! I want pictures! Should anyone get any great diving/pirate related booty under the tree, please sent me a quick pic so I [...]
Cyber Season with the Dive Pirates!
Lat = 31 degrees, 11.6 minutes North Long = 100 degrees, 29.9 minutes West (Pirate Hideout, Concho Cove) Our 2012 students and buddies are writing to Scuba Santa, asking all of those who fill their stockings to think about filling their mesh bags instead with goodies to go diving! Students, Buddies, make sure to get [...]
Lots of Pirate Pillaging…
Lat = 30 degrees, 9.6 minutes North Long = 95 degrees, 27.7 minutes West Pirate Headquarters – The Woodlands, TX Pirates, so much to talk about… where do we start???? How about last Friday morning… the Pirates were asked to make an appearance on the Fox 26 morning show with Dive Pirate and morning anchor [...]
Labor of Love…
Concho Cove Lat = 31 degrees, 11.6 minutes North Long = 100 degrees, 29.9 minutes West LABOR OF LOVE… A lot of activity this Labor Day Weekend! We’ll get straight to it!!! Swashbuckling Sophie went to Hawaii to meet with Kona Honu Divers owners Glenn and Maggie Anderson to discuss their soon-to-be Chapter Status [...]
Booty in the Mail…
Lat = 31 degrees, 11.6 minutes North Long = 100 degrees, 29.9 minutes West Pirate Trading Co (Post office downtown Concho Cove) I’ve been keeping this little place busy, mailing out pirate booty to new members and those who’ve renewed to keep up with the adventure. Is your membership letter hanging out on the desk? [...]
Lots of Pirate Publicity
Lat = 31 degrees, 11.6 minutes North Long = 100 degrees, 29.9 minutes West (Pirate Hideout, Concho Cove) Hey mateys! I’m sure you’ve missed my daily banter from the island, thanks to all for being such good sports, and for those of you who probably felt SPAMMED with all of the email blasts… thanks for [...]
Day 7… Pirates start packin’, but not without last hurrah
Well the wanted poster is up… seems the pirates are getting run outta town, but not without one more round of diving and debauchery. The morning started with TEXAS shaped waffles, thanks to Sean Barr sharing his prized waffle iron from his booty from the night before. Morning dives only as we’ve got to have [...]
Day 6: Twin Sister wins the Treasure Hunt!
The boats have kept it under wraps, but today we found out which boat came to the right person with the code word… “avast!” More on that in a minute… first… the days adventures…. Diving at the Tibbetts and Plymouth Rock I stowed away on “Twin Sister” to spend some time with Jane Scott, our [...]
Day 5… Great Diving… and the pirates’ pageant!
I know, I know, you are all waiting to see who was crowned miss dive pirates and best mobile-floatila… but first I must tell you about my day with the boys from San Antonio… two new recipients and two returning divers from San Antonio on this boat… and one new recipient from Houston. Let’s start [...]
Day 4 Diving at Little Cayman
Today’s boat ride was a little longer, but well worth it… over to Little Cayman to dive Near the Blade Bay Marine Park… the two dives we took in were the Mixing Bowl and Jackson Reef. Witnessed quite the act of piracy on our boat… remember a few days ago when I said we were [...]