The park is accessed via a boardwalk along the seafront. The main entrance is a big archway with the park’s namesake, Skallywag, sculpted into the top. The secondary logo, a skull with crossed wrenches, is plasma-cut into the center of the gate.
Each sign features one of the sixteen Gruffles we designed for Skallywag Bay. The railroad sign has Pike sitting in the cab of his train engine. All of the signs have a retro, steampunk style with copper trim and lots of rivets.
Spex sits in the crow’s nest atop the mast on the sign advertising the towering drop ride. He wears a pair of thick glasses and clutches a telescope, watching for those who might trespass in Skallywag Bay.
The sign for the adventure golf is actually a giant tree to which a host of signs are fastened. Soon it will be surrounded by lush vegetation, blending it into the landscape.
The eighteenth hole of the adventure golf is Hangman’s tree. Guests putt into his mouth for the last hole. It is a unique feature that suits the theme of the park very well.
A small, fully dimensional model of the fearsome Kraken is featured on the bumper boat sign. The back of the Kraken signs, like all of the others for this project, is fully finished and detailed.
On my last trip to Trinidad, Phoebe, my oldest granddaughter, accompanied me to help paint the large park graphic on the wall facing the highway. It’s been a long time since I painted letters this large on a concrete wall. We had fun and managed to do the massive sign in a day and a half.
