Hike to the hidden SEA CAVE at Dana Point with Captain Will Radford. WEAR A PIRATE UNIFORM AND TALK LIKE A PIRATE. Navigate the rocky TIDE POOLS below steep cliffs. Search for sea hares, crabs, lobsters, octopi, peregrine falcons and other wild beasts. SING SEA SHANTIES and hear tall tales of buccaneers, sea monsters and buried treasure. Bring a full meal in a backpack to enjoy at the cave. THIS EXPERIENCE IS DEPENDENT UPON CALM SURF CONDITIONS AND LOW TIDE. Remember, dead men tell no tales...

Book Queen Anne’s Blouse, OC’s favorite pirate band, for your next event!  Sing your favorite sea shanties! Hear legendary tales about Orange County’s fascinating maritime history, including the real pirate attack on San Juan Capistrano in 1818. This is your chance to join a pirate crew and swab the deck, steer the ship’s wheel, wave a pirate flag, ring the bell, dance a jig or get punished for hornswoggling.

Meet Iago, a live parrot (blue and gold macaw), who may perch on your shoulder. Captain Will Radford (AKA Barefoot Joel from the Black Star Canyon Ghost Walks) and his crew of scallywags will guide you through such classics as Drunken Sailor, Spanish Ladies and Blow the Man Down. Stomp your feet and clap your hands to the salty sounds of Cap’n Will on fiddle, Finnegan O’Malley on accordion and penny whistle, Ratboy on standup bass, Longbeard the Newf on pump organ and Meaty Claws on snare drum.

Sing your favorite film, television and theme park songs, such as Gilligan’s Island and Yo Ho A Pirate’s Life.

East of Old Town Orange, a rural road winds past rolling foothills en route to the Santa Ana Mountains where the infamous Black Star Canyon awaits curious visitors.  After dark, wander up this hiker’s paradise past fragrant shrubland and oak woodland.  Cross a bridge over an intermittent creek.  Listen for frogs, owls, voices, footsteps and other unseen nocturnal activities.  Learn tragic tales of Spanish soldiers, Indigenous people, mountain men, homesteaders, miners, ranchers, banditos and grizzly bears who may still haunt this ancient landscape.  Look for toads, snakes, tarantulas, trapdoor spiders, burrowing scorpions and glowworms. 

In partnership with Haunted Orange County, join naturalist, storyteller and local historian Joel Robinson on this 3-hour, 3-mile hiking tour and investigate the natural history, rumors and mysteries of this legendary canyon.