Epiphany in Tarpon Springs

Yesterday, Mum and I went to see the Epiphany Celebration at Tarpon Springs in Pinellas County, FL. It was a beautiful day and a relatively small crowd at 15,000. After the parade we snaked around to the far side of the bayou and wormed our way up into the crowd so that even I could see and take photos.

This photo is the moment when one of the divers retrieves the cross from the water were the priest has tossed it. You can read all about the celebration in the attached link. It was a great day for it, much better than the cold day it could have been. As you can see it was a gloriously sunny day.

Is it just me or are there a lot of guns here?

The Epiphany Celebration starts with a parade from the church to the bayou. The parade was bit bit haphazard; at one point we heard a guy on the phone to the color guard asking them, "why didn't you wait? You left the rest of the parade behind!"

The thing that I noticed was that every police, sheriff and all other security people were armed to the teeth. Only took two years in London for me to think its odd for parade marshals to be packing serious heat.