When his shipmates--fellow privateers and sociopaths in their own right--had had enough of him, they put him ashore in 1704 on a 12-mile stretch of volcanic rock off the coast of Chile.
The Big House featuring Paul Molloy (Zutons) and Candie Payne, will be bringing the day to an evocative close with their delicious blend of country, gleaming folk and west coast rock - not to be missed.
Rock was the first West Coast venture capitalist.
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He has rafted rivers in Yakutsk, dodged grizzly bears and black flies around Great Slave Lake (his record for fly bites is two hundred in a single night), and scouted rock formations on the Skeleton Coast, sometimes hiking more than twenty miles a day.
Italian prosecutors have launched an investigation into the shipwreck, detaining the ship's captain, Francesco Schettino, for questioning while top Italian officials criticized the ship for sailing so close to the shore of the island of Giglio, causing it to strike a rock formation just off the coast of the island.
There's no word yet when the Hard Rock Casino or 11 other Gulf Coast casinos might re-open.
Patrick Smith, a pilot and columnist for Salon.com, says the view of Greenland, with its creeping glaciers splintering into barren rock as you're coming in off the coast, is like no other.
By the time we hit the West Coast, the Conan was covered in the rock 'n' roll stickers, from Meat Puppets to Killdozer.
The wildest stretch of U.S. shoreline south of Alaska is California's lost coast, a 25-mile-long burl of rock thrust into, and pounded by, the Pacific.
The man himself often lived up to his bleak dream-world: lean, intense, racked by stomach complaints, and with a special fondness for the rugged limestone island of Faro, off Sweden's east coast, where he built a low stone house on an empty sweep of rock.
First Avenue, one of the city's major cultural arteries, was hopping with rock stars, delegates, reporters and other conventioneers, despite the storm barreling toward the Gulf Coast.
Mass tourism has been slow to discover Bulgaria's rugged north coast, home to few beaches but a long stretch of triumphant limestone cliffs popular with Bulgarian rock-climbers who leap into the crashing waves below.
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