Every year the Lions host a kickoff event to honor the hard work their volunteers are preparing for and to thank the event sponsors. During this private event, participants from both the Pageant & Shrimp Eating Championship are presented and given the opportunity to introduce themselves to Lions, sponsors and attending family members. This is […]
What A Way To Kick Off the Annual FMB Lions Shrimp Festival.... Wild Caught Florida Gulf Pink Shrimp Dinner Dine In or Take-Out (Slaw, Baked Beans, Cornbread, Cake) Drink ticket Saturday, March 5 $20.00 (cash or check) Pre-order your takeout today by calling: (239) 463-6057 or (574) 202-8392 Or by email at [email protected] or […]
Why else would you come to a Shrimp Festival on the beach? The Fort Myers Beach Lions have been boiling and serving delicious, pink Gulf shrimp to festival attendees for over sixty years! The secrets of perfectly cooked ‘peel and eat’ shrimp have been passed from boil master to boil master through the years, as […]
The Kids Shrimp Run is a one mile run on the beach sand and will be run on the first Saturday in March. The race will begin and end at the beach access on Gulf Beach Road across from the old Topps Supermarket and ends at Connecticut Street beach access. Starting at 8am, each grade […]
The festive 5k course takes you over the Matanzas Bridge twice while thousands of onlookers cheer runners on! The race starts at 9 am and precedes the ever-popular Shrimp Parade.
The Fort Myers Beach Shrimp Festival parade is approximately 2-miles long and runs down the main street of town on Estero Blvd from the Beach Elementary school (parade loading zone) to the base of the Matanzas Bridge on the beach side. Parade entrants are automatically entered into our Shrimp Festival Parade competition and awarded trophies […]
The Fort Myers Beach Shrimp Festival pageant, run for 60+ years & a project of the Ft. Myers Beach Lions Club, features contestants 15-20 years old who want to become this year’s Shrimp Festival Queen. Contestants must be able to appear at all the events for judging and in the Festival Parade and at the […]
