Ginger bread golf cart in Captiva parade Bubble Room

It’s the most wonderful time of year again…We shellebrated the holidays the weekend at the Captiva Golf Cart Parade with fabulous floats!

Nut Cracker Captiva Golf Cart Parade

Since the parade began in 2009, I’ve been decorating our Junonia Jalopy to take part in this quirky Christmas ritual… but not this year. This year I was honored to be a judge. But I couldn’t be just any judge- I had to break out a shell or two and decorated myself as a ShellElf to help NBC2 news anchor Kellie Burns and writer Steve Winston of WorldPropertyJournal.com judge the cutest little parade on the planet.

Captiva Parade Judges Kellie Burns, Pam Rambo, Steve Winston

I wish you could have seen these carts in person because they looked so much more amazing than the pictures but The Snowflakes were creative, frosty, sparkly and bright.

snowflakes Captiva christmas golf cart

They won first prize for Non-Commercial decorated golf cart. They were so stinkin cute!

Non Commercial Winner Captiva parade 2014

The local Remax offices are currently under construction so this team of realtors got really creative to decorate their golf cart float as The Grinch with construction tape and hard hats in colorful Christmas colors. They even had a dog with one antler- lol. The Grinch would be proud!

decorated golf cart

The Grinch mobile deservingly won first prize in Commercial category.

Commercial winner Captiva Parade 2014

I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw Bubble Room’s Ginger Bread House roll down the street. Yes, there was really a golf cart under this candy house made mostly of colorful paper plates. Awesome!

Gingerbread house Captiva golf cart parade

They won Best In Show!  These are the adorable Bubble Room girls who made this amazing golf cart the overall winners of the parade.

Best In Show Winners  Captiva golf cart parade float

It was not easy being judge since there were so many other whimsical and creative golf carts…

Captiva Golf Cart Parade Believe

Captiva Country Christmas Golf Cart Parade Beggs Realty

American Realty Golf Cart Parade 2014

After watching theses crazy carts float around Captiva Island, then watching the wacky awards ceremony, we all enjoyed merry cheer as the sun went down and the streets lit up with Luminary Festivities .

Shell Elf Pam Rambo Junonia

Our friends Louis and Nancy from our home town of Virginia Beach came for their second year to spend an Island Christmas in paradise with us. Being a part of such silliness, they want to come back next year too.

Clark Pam Louis Nancy Captiva Christmas

Since The Grinch didn’t want to steal this Christmas this year, The ShellElf steals a smile.

Captiva parade judge Pam Rambo ShellElf with Grinch

Shellers loved the parade too! I saw local sheller Jim rejoicing in the fun… while we talked about shelling our local beaches. He’s been finding lots of good shells at Gulfside City Park too and the same as me… he has been seeing Blind Pass and the Lighthouse beach a “hit or miss” these days. As we both said… ‘You never know what your gonna find until you get there!”.
Pam Shell Elf with Tim

This sweet little parade would never have been possible if it weren’t for the sponsorship of Royal Shell Companies so you may have wondered why these nutty Nut Cracker Carts didn’t win anything…  we couldn’t vote on our sponsor. But YOU get to vote for any cart you want because there is one more category that needs to YOUR VOTE…

YOU get to choose the Peoples Choice Award! You can see all of the floats from the parade and vote for your favorite one. CLICK HERE to choose your fave! (or https://www.facebook.com/captivagolfcartparade).

captiva golf cart parade nut cracker floats

The island Shellebrations have begun!

Pam Clark Rambo seashell holiday ShellElf

Come join us for our Shelling Adventure on Sight Sea-R cruise on Wednesday December 10, 2014 to Big Hickory Island. We should find plenty of holiday gifts from the sea on the island from these north winds that have been blowing- weehoo! CLICK HERE for more info and future dates.

pam rambo shelling trips