![]()
Next weekend brings a barrage of motorized boats to the waters near downtown Tampa for the city's Lighted Holiday Boat Parade, but on Sunday, Dec, 11 something more serene lands on the shores of the Hillsborough. About five miles upriver, nonprofit environmental groups Friends of the Hillsborough River and Tampa Bay Sierra Club welcome boats—and especially paddlers—to get in the water, all decorated and shit complete with battery operated lights, for a short trip to Sulphur Springs as part of the “Hillsborough River Holiday Boat Parade.”