As the dark nights draw in and with Halloween approaching, Cap’n Ed from Smugglers Cove Adventure Golf shares a cautionary tale with his Moonshadow Gang from Bournemouth’s real-life smuggling history!

“The life of a smuggler is hard – the first rule is, be careful who you trust. Your life depends on it! Cunning and bravery get you so far, but lady luck has her part to play and you must treat risk and reward as sides of the same coin. If caught, it’s prison, transportation to the colonies or death, if you tangle with a King’s Excise Man!

But a month’s wages in one night is better than working 30 days in cold fields and farms at Kinson. And as we know in these trying times of high taxes, people must have their little luxuries of tea, gin and rum!