In authentic costume and accompanied by “Captain Bob,” the blue and gold macaw, professional storyteller and licensed Charleston tour guide, Eric Lavender, brings Charleston’s Golden Age of Piracy to life with tales of the pirates, who visited our fair shores: Stede Bonnet, Blackbeard, Richard Worley, Charles Vane, and of course the ferocious female pirates, Mary Read and Anne Bonny.  Eric and Captain Bob lead you to the hangouts, “haunts,” and final resting places of pirates who made the old walled city of Charles Towne one of their ports-o-call.  Hear stories of Blackbeard’s blockade of the harbor and siege of the city, Stede Bonnet’s capture and execution, the romance between Anne Bonny and Calico Jack, the headless pirate ghost, who guards a buried treasure, and more! To learn more about the tours and book online, please visit www.charlestonpiratetour.com.