It was an especially cold morning for those pesky pirates invading Tampa again, but it warmed up as the festivities progressed Saturday. For more than 100 years, city leaders have held the signature Gasparilla event to draw visitors with a day of pirates and a parade of buccaneers.

Every year, an estimated 300,000 participants come to Tampa for the Gasparilla Pirate Festival, a mock attack by a band of pirates called Ye Mystic Krewe. The pirates’ plot is simple: storm the shores, take the city’s key, and parade down Bayshore Boulevard.

Tampa’s signature pirate event got off to a chilly start, but things warmed up as the day and parties progressed.

Gasparilla Parade, also known as the Gasparilla Pirate Festival, is a Tampa-based yearly event with more than a century-long history.

Whether by land or by sea, thousands of people crowded Tampa’s waterfront along Bayshore Boulevard on Saturday for the annual Gasparilla Parade of Pirates. It started with the usual invasion at the Tampa Convention Center,