On March 18, 2018 we went to the Bloom N Chalk Fest in Safety Harbor, Florida. This was our first time going to a chalk fest and visiting Safety Harbor. The city is north of Saint Petersburg and east of Clearwater. It is a very pretty area and the part of the city we saw had a small town feel to it. It reminded me of Mount Dora, Florida.
Bloom N Chalk Fest took place in Downtown Safety Harbor off of Main Street. We got there about 11 am on the second day and it was already pretty crowded. We had a little trouble finding parking but not too much, took about 15 minutes of driving around. I don’t know how many artists participated in the event, there were a lot, we walked from one end of the festival to the other end to see all the chalk drawings. I took pictures of alot of the drawings but I don’t think I got them all, there were a lot of people there.
I have the pictures below and a number on the picture corresponds to the artist on this list:
- Derek Ray
- Mike and Marcie Bethold
- Sharyn Chan
- Cass Womack
- Erik Greenawalt
- Lester Mendoza
- Mike and Pam Williams
- Dave Brenner
- Shellley Brenner
- Rob and Nadine Nickeson
- Fawne DeRosia
- Beatrice Flaig
- Holland King
- Reese Youngberg
- Ken Mullen and Hector Diaz
- Genesis Allione
- Damon Meri
- Kimberly Wood
- David Lepore
- Chris Carlson
- Willie Zen
- Janet Tombros
- Julie Garden
- Tonya Youngberg
- Michael Las Casas
- Venessa Monenegro
- Bridget Lyons
- Aislynn Mullen
- Maria Paula Romero
In addition to the chalk drawings the festival had food and craft booths. The raspberry tea from The King’s Nut and Tea was really good. We went back for more raspberry tea but didn’t get anything to eat.
Overall we really enjoyed our visit to Safety Harbor for the Bloom N Chalk Fest. I would love to go back to Safety Harbor to see more of the town and visit the Safety Harbor Waterfront Park and Philippe Park. Next time we might spend a few days in Safety Harbor and then go to Honeymoon Island and Caladesi Island. There is so much to do and see on the Saint Petersburg penisula, as I think of it, that you could spend a month there and not see it all.