A big part of the Blackbeard Festival tradition is waiting around on the banks of the Hampton Creek, watching a ludicrously poorly staged naval battle narrated by a guy who's been drinking all weekend, until they actual make some noise with the cannons, fight a little, and then hoist up a giant papier mache Blackbeard head.
That achieved, we head over to a park downtown to buy a bunch of crap we don't need and shell out $6 a pop for lemonade for the kids and beer for the grownups. Really, I love this festival!
The ship with the collection of flags is the Kalmar Nyckel (http://www.kalmarnyckel.org/). We didn't have the energy to wait in line to see it. The baby with the bandanna got his plastic sword from us. He loved it.
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