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Bayou Christmas Parade
Christmas in the Isles
Boats on the Bayou Parade
A Saturday in mid-December
The hour-and-a-half voyage starts at the Bay, going up Sandy Hook, returns to Bayou Boisdore (Bayou Malini). Detours are made into each of the canal cuts along the way going as far as the Malini Dead End to return to their rendezvous --- to party the rest of the night.
No one seems to have kept count as to how many years this Christmas boat parade has existed, but it very well may be the oldest on the Coast.
“Admiral-in-Charge” Bill Mahoney has been heading up the parade since 1989, when the predecessors, the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary dropped it after an infamous period of time. Remembered auxiliary members were Virgil Jolley, Ed Wilcox, and John Duggan.
Mahoney's first year showed only 3 boats, but he maintained the merry tradition of lighted boats. Most of the homes bordering the bayous and canals spread Christmas decorations all along the way to greet the boaters and to offer Christmas toasts.
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