sea cavalcade extraordinaire...

Each year, during a weekend in July, Gibsons has Sea Cavalcade. The two most exciting parts of Sea Cav (as the locals call it), are the fireworks Friday night and the parade Saturday morning. Sadly, the fireworks kinda sucked this year - and as an added bonus they debuted playing music like the Symphony of Fire. Their selections included the song from the People's commercial, and Carmina Burrana. Odd, very odd. The evening went from wanting a diamond to examining my life prior to impending doom.

The parade was interesting, as always. For some reasons pirates always seem to dominate the theme of the weekend - even though this year it had the unfortunate title of "Fanta-sea." Either way, I shall not bore you with countless photos of pirates, and young girls dressed up as mermaids, but instead, I present:

The Oddities of the Sea Cav Parade:

A sweet BC ferries float, accompanied by John on his strange golf-equipped Segway.



Yeah, I'd be scared, too, if sheep were driving:



A little hometown-pride for the Canadian idol:



A whole hord of accordion players! Which definitely beats out Sechelt parade's lone accordionist:



And now for the strangest of the strange:

There was this:



This:



Oh boy:



Hot damn:



And, saving the best for last! Crabs!