Essential WEST – Tributes to the late singer/songwriter Jimmy Buffett have been commonplace Wednesday night at Key West’s Fantasy Fest Pet Masquerade presented on an open up-air stage.
The fur-loaded festivities were a highlight of the island’s 10-working day Fantasy Fest costuming and masking celebration, this yr themed “Uniforms and Unicorns … 200 A long time of Sailing into Fantasy” to salute the Florida Keys’ bicentennial and that of the U.S. Navy in Key West.
Several teams feted Buffett, who passed absent Sept. 1 at age 76. He was honored on the island wherever he designed the tropical mystique that flavored his music all through his lifetime.
(Rob O’Neal/Florida Keys Information Bureau)
Other group entries integrated a spouse and children staging a “Smokey the Bear” skit with a 13-calendar year-outdated Newfoundland portraying Smokey.
Some opponents drew inspiration from the competition topic. They included a unicorn-horned canine “Trojan horse” containing a doggy duo in Roman soldier uniforms, and two “sailor” pugs with their human captain.
As very well as supplying a tail-wagging good time, the Pet Masquerade rewards the Lessen Keys Good friends of Animals.
Fantasy Fest carries on by way of Sunday, Oct. 29, with highlights together with a masquerade march in Critical West’s historic district and a flamboyant nighttime parade Saturday, Oct. 28, featuring lavish motorized floats and elaborately costumed marching teams.
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