Whitsundays celebrates International Talk like a Pirate Day
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Shiver me timbers is not something you expect to hear in everyday conversation, but it'll be more commonplace today, as centres around the world celebrate International Talk like a Pirate Day.
Scarves, eye patches, parrots and strange accents will be part of a special event being held in the Whitsundays today, complete with plank walking and pirate jokes.
The event began eight years ago as a bit of fun, but is now celebrated around the world.
Organiser of the Airlie Beach event, Captain Dan van Blarcom, says all pirates will be on their best behaviour.
"We're the polite pirates and we always use our manners and say please and thank you and ensure our visitors always come first," he said.
"That's pretty important in a town like Airlie Beach, which is a tourist destination and we want people to come here and have a good time.
"We're going to have some pirate hip hop music and other pirate songs and we'll be there waving our hooks in the air and having a jolly good time talking about booty."
He says those who don't enjoy themselves may have to walk the plank.
Shiver me timbers!: The founders of the event
International Talk Like a Pirate Day is being celebrated today, as it has every September 19 for the last decade. 

The tradition was started by John Baur and Mark Summers, known to fellow pirates as Cap'n Slappy and Ol' Chumbucket. It became popular in 2002, when US author Dave Barry joined the support. Baur and Summers are both published authors themselves, as well as self-publishing books.

In Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom the Campaign for Real Ale has organised a pirate pub crawl, while a London pub is offering rum at £0.50 a time. There are several events linked to the cancer charity Marie Curie. A Los Angeles bar is offering a day of 'sexy pirate talk'.

Australia's Whitsunday Islands are holding an event organised by a man identified by ABC only as Captain Dan van Blarcom. "We're the polite pirates and we always use our manners and say please and thank you and ensure our visitors always come first," he said, adding that people caught not having fun may be made to walk the plank and that there are "some pirate hip hop music and other pirate songs" on offer.

Bauer and Summers started the day after deciding that raquetball was much more fun when various pirate sayings were mixed into the game. The picked today as it was one of the few dates Summers could remember that did not already have a major holiday, being his ex-wife's birthday.