I've lived in the Tampa Bay area as a Florida local for 19 years. Some of the best things to do include a boat cruise or a ...

Every year, an estimated 300,000 participants come to Tampa for Gasparilla Pirate Festival ... But as a three-masted ship draped in colorful flags approached the Tampa Convention Center, the ...

“In 1783, having become a traitor and a pirate, José Gaspar gave the name of “Gasparilla” to himself as well as to his ship and the island in Charlotte Harbor, on the west coast of Florida ...

The pirate-themed festival is named after the ... They sail north through the Seddon Channel aboard the José Gasparilla ship, and dock at the Tampa Convention Center in the afternoon.

Zsiga and his partner, Captain Samuel Koury, took Paluska and photographer Reed Moeller out into the Gulf to an undisclosed ...