This week’s Key Lime Festival in Key West featured all things sweet, tart, delicious — and airborne.
Sixty individuals and teams took part in the Key Lime Pie Drop July 2 at the Key West Lighthouse. The annual Key Lime Festival competition calls for competitors to create a device or container to protect a 5-inch diameter pie and keep it from exploding on impact when dropped about 88 feet, from the observation deck of the historic lighthouse.
This year’s event drew a larger-than-ever crowd of participants and spectators, with the Key lime pies attached to umbrellas — Mary Poppins style — and helium-filled balloons to ease their landing. One entry floated off the lighthouse property and landed next door.
The Key Lime Festival took place June 30 to July 4, with culinary treats, bar strolls, a Key lime pie-eating contest, cookbook signings and more.
For more information and to make plans for next year, visit keylimefestival.com.
