non diving event in Jan in Marathon

[iluvtheocean]

There is a Celtic Festival going on the weekend of January 10 & 11 in Marathon with live music bands coming from away as Scotland herself..

Keys

Great Live Celtic Bands, Border Collie Herding Demo, Highland Athletics, Pipes & Drums, Celtic Food, Beer and Celtic Merchandise Vendors!

I've already got my hotel room booked.

You can always dive in the morning and go to the festival in the afternoon

 

[SavageRon]

Surface interval in a kilt!!!!
Sounds like fun, but only a maybe for making it down that weekend at this point.
It's on my calendar though, so will give it a try....

 

[iluvtheocean]

some other good dates for different parts of florida for those that can't get down to the keys:

18 - 19 January	Central Florida Highland Games	Winter Springs, FL, USA
24 - 25 January	Caloosahatchee Celtic Festival	Fort Myers, FL, USA
01 February	Sarasota Highland Games	Sarasota, FL, USA
07 - 08 February	Celtic Family Jubilee Sertoma Youth Ranch	Brooksville, FL, USA

22 February	NE Florida Highland Games	Jacksonville, FL, USA
01 March	SE Florida Highland Games	Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA
08 - 08 March	St. Augustine Celtic Festival	St. Augustine, FL, USA

All of these are very kid friendly, although i'm not sure if they would like the Haggis!

 

[Tom Winters]

Why would you want to dive when you could be doing morning caber tossing? I don't think that the haggis tossing is a good idea. What if it leaches into the water table?

 

[iluvtheocean]

actually i'd say throwing the haggis is better than eating it (never been big on organ meat) although it is supposed to be biodegradable ..... scotch eggs are delicious though... besides with all the beer & ale consumed at one of these, you won't be doing any diving afterwards.

For some reason the ladies like a man in a kilt --- out of the water at least.

 

[SavageRon]

Not going to make it down this weekend (I ate/drank so much through the holidaze my kilt barely fits) but I wanted to bump the thread to remind some of you it's going on, and hopefully you can get some incriminating photos of some "scubaboard famous" divers behaving poorly after much stout and whisky.

Have fun, but don't do anything I wouldn't do. /grin

 

[iluvtheocean]

LOL -- i actually didn't have any alcohol since hadn't been feeling so good. But the line for the beer was LONG. The festival went very well especially for a 1st time festival and the music was great. I sat right up front all day.
it went well enough that they are going to be doing it again next year!