Jimmy Buffett will take his Margaritaville restaurant empire off the North American continent for the first time later this year when he opens Margaritaville Cafes in Sydney and the Gold Coast in Australia.

Watch the news report announcing the openings here (3:05 mark).

Buffett played shows in Australia this past January for the first time in a couple decades.

(hat tip Jenny)

We had over 150 captions submitted in the latest Jimmy Buffett Caption Contest. We pulled five of our favorites and want you to vote on your favorite.

Here’s the photo again:

Jimmy Buffett was one of several VIP’s at this morning’s final space shuttle launch, and after Atlantis blasted off, Jimmy played a private show for NASA employees in front of the Vehicle Assembly Building.

photo by @izqomar

The final flight of the space shuttle program is set for this morning (weather permitting), and Jimmy Buffett is in attendance:

What can bring United States Attorney General Eric Holder, Geraldo Rivera and Kevin Sorbo, TV’s “Hercules,” together? While it may sound like a wacky new reality show, it’s actually NASA’s last-ever space shuttle launch.

The shuttle Atlantisis slated to blast off today (July 8th) at 11:26 a.m. EDT (1526 GMT) on the shuttle program’s final mission. NASA is retiring the iconic vehicles after 30 years of spaceflight to concentrate on sending astronauts beyond low-Earth orbit to an asteroid and Mars.

Celebrities of widely varying star power are coming out to witness the historic event, according to NASA’s VIP guest list. Holden and Sorbo are expected to attend, for example. So are Florida Governor Rick Scott and motivational speaker Vernice “Fly Girl” Armour. Gloria Estefan and Jimmy Buffett are other notable names on the list, too.

Back to work after a long, holiday weekend… what better time for another Jimmy Buffett caption contest?

Take a look at the photo below and provide your own caption for it:

(photo Nina Long/The Tennessean)

Post your caption in the comments section of this post.

After a few days we’ll pick a few of our favorites and put them in a poll for you to vote on the winner.