It was perfect weather for a pirate parade.
Last Saturday, over 300,000 mateys plundered Tampa's Bayshore Boulevard for the third largest parade in the U.S.
The annual 2024 Gasparilla Pirate Parade attracted over 120 parade floats, 30 krewes, hundreds of boaters, and, of course, the star of the show, tons beads.
Overall, the event went smooth. More than 30 law enforcement agencies were on hand, and a total of 26 arrests were made, on both land and sea, during Saturday's parade.
If you're wondering what to do with all those hard-earned beads, you can drop them off at multiple locations around Tampa for recycling, or the Florida Aquarium will even trade them in for a 50% off general admission ticket.
