Pirate Quest: #1 Anne Bonny Mystery Cache

Welcome to the Pirate Quest! This short series will teach you a little bit about Pirates and have some fun along the way while you do it. So grab your parrot, tune up your best Pirate voice, fuel up your ship and set your sails.

There are 7 geocaches in this Series. Each one will consist of a puzzle that you will need to complete to find the final coordinates. We are going to treat each cache as a Ship. With each cache you find, you will treat that as a Ship that you have overtaken from that Pirate. Can you overtake all 7 ships and become King/Queen of the Seas?

Now, I do have one little rule, so in the spirit of this Quest, I will ask that as you find each cache, you yell out "AAARRRGG!" in your best Pirate voice and that your online logs be in your best Pirate lingo. Ready to have some fun, Matey?!?

Anne Bonny

An Irish-American woman pirate born to a wealthy family and disowned when she married a small-time pirate, James Bonny, at 16. Anne left James for the pirate, John “Calico Jack” Rackham and posed as a man to join his crew. Anne never commanded a ship but is famous for being one of few female pirates. She and Mary Read both “pleaded the belly” to escape execution. She may have been rescued by her father and remarried, living as a respectable woman to an old age.

Quick Facts:

• Born: unknown, but possibly 1697 and born near Cork, Ireland

• Died: Around April of 1782 near Charlston, South Carolina

• Pirate Nickname: Anney

• Allegiance: to Calico Jack

• Active: from 1718–October 1720

• Base of Operations: the Caribbean

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