Floatopia
Revelers enjoy the Floatopia event in Mission Bay near Fanuel Street Park in San Diego, March 20, 2010. Roughly 5,000 people took to the water to skirt an alcohol ban on San Diego's beaches.
Like tan, overdeveloped leafcutter ants carrying inflatable rafts ten times their size, several thousand students and twenty-somethings swarmed Mission Bay on the first day of spring for a water party known as Floatopia. Revelers set themselves adrift on buoyant objects running the gamut from large inflatable castle to overnight twin mattress in an effort to spend spring break appropriately inebriated. Floatopia took its name from a similar event in Santa Barbara, and appeared in San Diego after a loophole was discovered in a recent alcohol ban that covered San Diego Beaches, but not the water.
Ultimately no one drowned, though police and lifeguards were kept busy issuing citations and keeping everyone safe.
Floatopia had over 10,000 confirmed guests on its Facebook event page, though the number of revelers in attendance was closer to 5,000. The page summed it up best, as always, in all capitals:
“GET DRUNK!
GET FU**ED
HAVE FUN
BE REPONSIBLE
SEE YOU THERE!!!!!!!!!!”
Kasey Connors from Escondido enjoys Floatopia in Mission Bay near Fanuel Street Park in San Diego, March 20, 2010.
A reveler carries a raft, the bottom of which tore open during Floatopia.
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