Port Royal & Kingston Harbour

"...the most wicked and sinful city in the world"   No Caribbean campaign is complete without a visit to the pirate haven Port Royal! The home base for Sir Henry Morgan and hundreds of pirates and privateers, this place was a real port of legend. At its peak, it was more populated than New York and Boston, and it even rivaled London in size and importance. You might remember it from the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie… or have heard it mentioned in almost every pirate fiction or story since the age of the buccaneers... But you may not have heard the fascinating true story of this amazing place and the catastrophe that destroyed it. On a hot summer day in 1692, half of the peninsula was sucked into the sea from a massive earthquake that liquified the sand: first-hand reports tell of people being sucked into the sand up to their heads, just to be eaten alive by dogs! A tsunami hit shortly after, causing even more chaos and destroying everything in its path. Many considered the