Naples Christmas boat parade shines in its 75th year in Long Beach

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  • Festive participants ellipse Alamitos Bay and navigate its canals connected Saturday, Dec. 18, 2021 astatine the 75th day of the Naples Islands Christmas vessel parade successful Long Beach. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)

  • Santa Claus greets spectators connected Saturday, Dec. 18, 2021 during the 75th day of the Naples Islands Christmas vessel parade successful Long Beach. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)

  • Santa Claus greets spectators connected Saturday, Dec. 18, 2021 during the 75th day of the Naples Islands Christmas vessel parade successful Long Beach. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)

  • Santa Claus greets spectators connected Saturday, Dec. 18, 2021 during the 75th day of the Naples Islands Christmas vessel parade successful Long Beach. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)

  • “Diamonds connected the Bay” is the taxable connected Saturday, Dec. 18, 2021 for the 75th day of the Naples Islands Christmas vessel parade successful Long Beach. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)

  • Boats rotation past elaborately decorated Naples homes connected Saturday, Dec. 18, 2021 astatine the 75th day of the Naples Islands Christmas parade successful Long Beach. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)

  • Ayla King of Long Beach and her daughters Khalil, 12, and Layla, 6, are among hundreds of spectators connected Alamitos Bay formation connected Saturday, Dec. 18, 2021 to ticker the 75th day of the Naples Islands Christmas vessel parade. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)

  • The Wilson High School Alumni Syncopated Drummers bang their mode on the way connected Saturday, Dec. 18, 2021 astatine the 75th day of the Naples Islands Christmas vessel parade successful Long Beach. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)

  • The Wilson High School Alumni Syncopated Drummers bang their mode on the way connected Saturday, Dec. 18, 2021 astatine the 75th day of the Naples Islands Christmas vessel parade successful Long Beach. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)

  • Festive participants ellipse Alamitos Bay and navigate its canals connected Saturday, Dec. 18, 2021 astatine the 75th day of the Naples Islands Christmas vessel parade successful Long Beach. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)

  • Festive participants ellipse Alamitos Bay and navigate its canals connected Saturday, Dec. 18, 2021 astatine the 75th day of the Naples Islands Christmas vessel parade successful Long Beach. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)

  • Festive participants ellipse Alamitos Bay and navigate its canals connected Saturday, Dec. 18, 2021 astatine the 75th day of the Naples Islands Christmas vessel parade successful Long Beach. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)

  • Festive participants ellipse Alamitos Bay and navigate its canals connected Saturday, Dec. 18, 2021 astatine the 75th day of the Naples Islands Christmas vessel parade successful Long Beach. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)

  • Thousands of spectators turned retired connected Saturday, Dec. 18, 2021 for the “Diamonds connected the Bay’ 75th day of the Naples Islands Christmas vessel parade successful Long Beach. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)

  • The Wilson High School Alumni Syncopated Drummers bang their mode on the way connected Saturday, Dec. 18, 2021 astatine the 75th day of the Naples Islands Christmas vessel parade successful Long Beach. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)

  • Festive participants ellipse Alamitos Bay and navigate its canals connected Saturday, Dec. 18, 2021 astatine the 75th day of the Naples Islands Christmas vessel parade successful Long Beach. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)

  • Festive participants ellipse Alamitos Bay and navigate its canals connected Saturday, Dec. 18, 2021 astatine the 75th day of the Naples Islands Christmas vessel parade successful Long Beach. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)

  • Festive participants ellipse Alamitos Bay and navigate its canals connected Saturday, Dec. 18, 2021 astatine the 75th day of the Naples Islands Christmas vessel parade successful Long Beach. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)

  • Festive participants ellipse Alamitos Bay and navigate its canals connected Saturday, Dec. 18, 2021 astatine the 75th day of the Naples Islands Christmas vessel parade successful Long Beach. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)

  • Festive participants ellipse Alamitos Bay and navigate its canals connected Saturday, Dec. 18, 2021 astatine the 75th day of the Naples Islands Christmas vessel parade successful Long Beach. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)

  • Festive participants ellipse Alamitos Bay and navigate its canals connected Saturday, Dec. 18, 2021 astatine the 75th day of the Naples Islands Christmas vessel parade successful Long Beach. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)

Diamonds shimmered connected the bay this weekend.

The Naples Islands Christmas vessel parade returned Saturday evening, Dec. 18, for its 75th day — with astir 100 vessels, decked retired successful yuletide décor, cruising the Long Beach canals.

The parade featured ample leisure boats and smaller craft, specified arsenic kayaks and rafts, traveling on 2 antithetic routes.

In grant of the parade’s 75th anniversary, this year’s taxable was Diamonds On The Bay.

And the parade delivered — with the Christmas lights shining disconnected the h2o similar jewels.

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