The Treasure Island Boat Parade 2019

The Christmas boat parade had been canceled once before and with the high winds forecast, we really didn’t hold much hope for it to occur.

However, Jen called to let us know it was on and we drove to their condo to watch the celebration.

We could see several boat’s lights, but it wasn’t until the lead boat, a police boat headed our way that we knew the parade had started.

The boats spread out, or at last appeared to as they followed the channel up from Blind pass.

As they neared, we went down to the waterfront and found a bench out of the wind.

The wind wad still strong and it reminded me of the times I had climbed Devils Tower, (for all the English teachers out there the “s” in Devils Tower is not hyphenated).

If the wind were strong enough it would blow straight up the Tower and when we threw our repelling ropes over the edge, they would blow back up, That how strong the wind was during the parade!

(on those occasions you had to have the first person down coil the ropes around their body and uncoil them as they went descended).

As the first boats went by, I wondered if I could even get an image as the wind was pushing the boats!

The captains however did a great job of maintaining control and they kept a safe spacing and maintained their heading.

There were about thirty boats in total and some of the images were blurred but I did get some good ones.

Enjoy the decorations, excuse the poor images and enjoy the parade.