Krewe of Okeanos

Okeanos (oceans) was a divine figure in classical antiquity, believed by the ancient Greeks and Romans to be the divine personification of the sea, an enormous river encircling the world. Strictly speaking, Oceanus was the ocean-​stream at the Equator in which floated the habitable hemisphere. Thus, the sun rises from the deep-​flowing Oceanus in the east and at the end of the day sinks back into the Oceanus in the west. In Greek mythology, this world-​ocean was personified as a Titan, a son of Uranus and Gaea. In Hellenistic and Roman mosaics, this Titan was often depicted as having the upper body of a muscular man with a long beard and horns (often represented as the claws of a crab) and the lower body of a serpent
This is a solid start for a day of parades the Sunday of Mardi Gras weekend. It is on the typical Uptown route, of which is now my favorite route. The floats were beautiful, the marching bands were great, the dance troupes were awesome, and the regular bands were pretty awesome.
This is one of my favorite parades and is nice and relaxing to watch. The throws are plentiful. A great time to be had by all. My one complaint is that I was unable to check in on Unilocal. I know, it is a first world complaint.

Okeanos is just that OK. It’s not really a remarkable parade and it’s the first parade on a long day of many other special ones. That being said, it’s a fine parade with lots of throws and enthusiastic riders.
A bunch of kids around me caught decorated wine corks which are a fun unique throw. LOVE custom made items. Also the Skin & Bonez Gang is a great group that marches in Okeanos… creepy and fun!
The floats aren’t great but at least they weren’t using the Halloween floats from Kerne like so many others. They did have Vince Vance this year and he was singing as he passed where I was watching so bonus points for that. Plus there seemed to be both men and women riders which I like.
A solid start to a LONG day of parading.

This is a great family parade that used to roll st claude avenue. Lots of fun folks and kids bring the magic on bacchus sunday morning.
Starts way up on jefferson and comes down magazine. Good music and old fashioned daytime fun!

Generally speaking most things done during the day are less fun than if it were done at night. This holds true whether vandalizing some property, drinking, throwing a party, going to a concert, attending a sports game, etc.
Okeanos is an aforementioned daytime happening that takes place too early in the morning for most locals and tourists who just went to sleep at 5−7am from partying the night before. Okeanos kicks off at 11am on the Sunday before Mardi Gras Day. It’s a decent parade for the kids to catch some beads and souvenirs but it lacks the sought after signature throws that are usually thrown at the bigger night parades.
If you’re awake before noon on a Mardi Gras weekend check it out. If you’re not no biggie as the bigger and better parades happen later on anyways.