Pirates on Koh Tao
The Pirate Party. On my way to the beach something caught my eye. “Pirate Party! Tomorrow night at the Castle.” This was too good an opportunity to miss. Time to completely make a twat of my self dressed as the baddest pirate in the south China Seas ( Or Gulf of Thailand to be exact.) The mission was on.
I somehow need to acquire a costume and enough Rum to Drown a small navy. I went shopping in Mae Had – the main town on Koh Tao hoping to get lucky. Considering the town consists of 2 streets you aren’t exactly spoilt for choice here. Incredibly however Mae Had turn out to be the greatest Pirate wear emporium in the world. Apart from a slight blip when I went into a shop that appeared to be about as random as you can get: “Can I help you” said the elderly female Asian shop proprietor. I looked at her and grinned. “I’m after some Pirate stuff.” A look of utter confusion starred back. “Pilot?”
To clear up the confusion I though I would elaborate…“No, No Pirate. You know…Arrrrgh! Me heartys!” I shouted whilst hoping on one leg with one eye half cocked. She was looking a little bit scared by this point, so I said “Do you sell eye patches?”. “Doctor?” Came the response. Pretty much summing up her opinion of what I needed.
I sidled out of the shop disappointed, leaving the shop assistant some what dazed shaking her head. I did not remain disappointed for long. My Spree turned up a parrot, skull and cross bones belt, bandana and all I needed to fashion the worlds largest sword, (amazing what you can achieve with duck tape, card and a curtain pole). I also found an authentic blunderbuss pistol ( which was actually a lighter) but at a little over a tenner seemed a bit much for a fancy dress costume. To this day I regret not purchasing it though. Fishermans Pants and a white shirt that looked the business. That evening I got ready round at my friend Debbie’s house, she wasn’t coming to the party as she had a throat infection, but was more than happy to cover me in Permanent marker pen tattoo’s and eye make up Jonny Depp Style. So there I was. Dressed like a pirate, a parrot stuck on my shoulder with a huge cutlass in my pants. To top it off I popped in some fake teeth that I had found and blackened out. Arrggggh!
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