Cedar Key Seafood Festival

The Cedar Key Seafood Festival is 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday and features more than 100 arts and crafts exhibits, live music at several locations, a parade Saturday morning and, of course, lots of great local seafood. Tasting opportunities are abundant.

Past festival-goers recommend various locally made clam chowders, raw or fried oysters, smoked mullet dip and corn on the cob. Crafts include some items with local flavor, too: boxes made from local cedar trees, preserved and mounted crabs and lobsters, egret lawn ornaments and other Floridiana.  Cedar Key attracts many artists, so the booths include impressive fine artists, too.