Hoist Your Colors at Beczak

Mikro went to another great program at Beczak Environmental Education Center, this time on maritime use of flags. The kids learned about the flag alphabet, national flags, the flags flown by Henry Hudson's Half Moon, pirate flags and some international flag symbols. Then they designed their own flags. Maritime flags use only five colors: red, white, blue, yellow and black.

Can you figure out what these flags spell? (Hint: They really should be looked at as if they were hung vertically, with the red pennant shaped flag at the left as the topmost flag, because the horizontal display has the stripes going the wrong way, so it is a little tough...)***



Here are Mikro and his friend Dakota, with the flags they made:



And here is the flag of the dread pirate Margaritaville Chele the Gimpy... an old parrothead with a crappy spine (i.e., me, LOL.) I've been humming Jimmy Buffett tunes ever since...



Yes I am a pirate
200 years too late
The cannon don't thunder
There's nothing to plunder
I'm an over 40 victim of fate...

*** The flags spell Beczak.