Seafair Pirates take the beach and Seattle again; Seafair 75 is underway

If you don't know just axe him! A Seafair Pirate and his crew of scallywags hit Alki Beach on Saturday to take over the city and kick off Seafair 75.

Photo by Greg McCorkle

The Seafair Pirates did it again. They hit the beach on Saturday afternoon to the delight of a sizeable crowd to "take over" the city and offiicaly kick off Seattle's Seafair 75th aniversary celebration.

In typical pirate fashion the pirates fooled everybody. They were probably 400 hundred yards away from the bath house when they decided to make a hard turn to port and land there. It was a scramble to the beach to try and get there to greet them as their landing craft came ashore.

From there King Neptune, KING TV's Chris Cashman and Queen Halcyon were on hand for the annual award of the key to the city by King County Executive Dow Constantine.

Check https://www.seafair.org/ for more events this summer.

landing craft — Fooling everyone the pirates made for an unoccupied section of the beach at Alki on July 6. Photo by Greg McCorkle

pirate and kid — A pirate with a captivated kid. Photo by Greg McCorkle

Arrr! — Avast ye mateys! Photo by Greg McCorkle

KING TV's Chris Cashman is King Neptune for 2024. Photo by Greg McCorkle

Queen Halcyon — Queen Alcyone was on board the Moby Duck! Photo by Greg McCorkle

Seafair Royalty and pirates — Seafair royalty was there to be feted. Photo by Greg McCorkle

King Neptune at left looked on at King County Executive Dow Constantine with the key to the city.. Photo by Greg McCorkle

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