12/7/14
Beaufort SC
Posted by Bill

The boat parade wasn’t enough, so the town of Beaufort has a Christmas parade the day after, and they actually label it “Christmas Parade”, not holiday parade or some other watered down version of the traditions of our forefathers because we are now afraid to offend someone…I say “good for Beaufort”!! Makes me like this place that much better!

After watching the announcement of the Buckeyes in the NCAA playoff…O! H!, we borrowed the bikes from the marina and rode back to downtown to watch the parade. After looking at the route, I figured we could probably sit at a sports bar called Bricks and watch while we ate a late lunch, and as luck would have it (again today), we got the two bar seats right next to the large plate glass window overlooking the parade route. We saw most of the parade like this:

I did get off my butt to capture a couple of “typical” pictures of what was in the parade. First, this parade was big…it took an hour for the whole thing to pass.

There were a total of 5 boats being pulled on their trailer like this one:

Not something I have seen in a parade before.

Also unique to my parade experience….nothing says Christmas like a monster truck

or excavation equipment

Then there were lots of people walking or riding on trailers like this:

Then a wooden ship.

Then the more typical holiday type stuff:

Oh, and Elvis made an appearance:

And, as expected, at the end of the line, the fat man himself…Santa!