The 85th annual Rhododendron Festival Grand Parade cruised through Port Townsend on Saturday afternoon. About 40 floats and pedestrian groups, from the North Olympic Orca Pod to the Sequim Irrigation Festival, flowed down Lawrence Street in the procession, postponed from last May.
Ukuleles Unite! group strummed and sang its way down Lawrence Street in Saturday’s Rhododendron Festival Grand Parade. The procession gathered 40 entries and hundreds of spectators to Uptown and downtown Port Townsend.
The crew of Cake Picnic volunteers brought up the rear of The Cake Picnic then capped the festivities with free cake, music and games at Pope Marine Plaza downtown.
The Sequim Irrigation Festival float, whose theme is “A Place for You to Rome,” carried festival royalty who are, from left, princesses Allie Gale, Zoee Kuperus and Sydney VanProyen and Queen Hannah Hampton.