Checking out Central Alabama’s summer hot spots: Pirate Island on Lake Logan Martin

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) – One other summer season scorching spot to share, and this one is on Lake Logan Martin.

You’ll should load up the boat to get to this slice of paradise!

The palm tree background could make you’re feeling as if you’re within the Caribbean. However you’re not, you’re nonetheless in Alabama.

You don’t should decrease the latitude to search out an oasis this summer season – simply search for the pirate flag.

“It’s a spot, nevertheless it’s extra of an angle,” Jim Regan, proprietor of Pirate Island, stated.

That’s the motto of Regan’s Pirate Island on Logan Martin!

“And the kids drive their mother and father nuts, I hear this on a regular basis ‘I wish to go to Pirate Island’… I wish to go to Pirate Island,” Regan added.

Regan is aware of why.

“They wanna get the beads, get the treasure,” Regan stated. “And simply because it’s an island they’re content material and fogeys get somewhat break.”

Little Bentley appears like this whereas on the island.

“I really feel out at sea, none of that ought to be displaying,” Bentley stated. “These timber ought to be gone. I simply see blue, blue all over the place.”

This 12 months, Regan’s anticipating probably the most guests up to now.

“With the value of gasoline, there’s going to be plenty of parking at Pirate Island within the bay,” Regan added.

This island can be nothing with out Regan’s first mate, his spouse Laurie.

“The pirate’s fairly cute isn’t he,” Laurie stated with a smile.

The Alabama native gifted her husband the island years in the past hoping it could convey the New York native a everlasting paradise.

“Southern palm tree feeling that he needed when he was rising up,” Laurie stated.

“I’ve been dissatisfied ever since, I maintain ready on one thing, as a result of what’s higher, what’s higher than an island,” Regan stated with fun. “Been dissatisfied ever since.”

The couple’s love for his or her Pell Metropolis neighborhood reveals with each element on their property.

They do all of it free of charge, however Regan says it’s value it to see the Logan Martin crew take pleasure in Pirate Island all summer season.

“It’s the present that retains on giving,” Regan stated.

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