Celebrate Independence Day

Here are some Fourth of July activities around the area:

• Miromar Outlets and Germain Arena present the 10th annual fireworks show in celebration of Independence Day on Friday, July 3. Children's activities will begin at 5:30 p.m. The Southern Extreme Water- Ski Team will perform at 6 and 7:30 p.m., and the fireworks will begin at dusk.

• Moe's annual Firecracker 5k Run sets of from the site of the old Pippin's restaurant on Tamiami Trail North at 7 a.m. Saturday, July 4. After the race, participants are welcome to meet at the Naples Beach Hotel for a group swim. Day-of registration for $15 begins at 6 a.m. Advance registration is $7 for members of Gulf Cost Runners and $10 for non-members and can be completed online at www.gcrunners.org. Race packets will be available for pick-up from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday and Friday July 2-3, at Naples on the Run in Gateway Center, 2116 Tamiami Trail N.

• The city of Naples' Fourth of July Parade steps out along Broad Avenue at 10 a.m. and follows a route to Third Street South, north to Fifth Avenue South and east to Eighth Street South past City Hall, ending at Eighth Avenue and Eighth Street.

• Show up wearing an American flag and enjoy half-price admission for an airboat ride, a swamp buggy eco-tour, a snake and alligator who or a swamp critter show at

Billie Swamp Safari on the Big Cypress Seminole Reservation in the Everglades. The flag can be worn as a pin, badge, bandanna, hat, T-shirt or anything else appropriate. The half-price offer is good all day Saturday, July 4. For more information, call (863) 983-6101 or visit www.billieswampsafari. travel.

• Celebrate on the water aboard the Naples Princess. The Independence Day cruise will also serve as a fundraiser for the Naples Philharmonic Orchestra and its youth music education programs. Boarding begins at 7 p.m. Saturday, July 4, at Port-O-Call Way, and the boat departs at 7:30 p.m. to cruise into the Gulf of Mexico to view the fireworks up and down the beach. Tickets are $130 each, with $40 tax-deductible. For more information, call 254-2777 or 435-3819.

• The Bonita Springs night sky will come alive with a laser light show Saturday, July 4, in Riverside Park as part of the annual Star Spangled Bonita Party in the Park. The fun begins at 6 p.m. and will include live entertainment and pie-baking and hotdog eating competitions, plus a waterslide, dunking game, potato sack races and relay races. For more information, call 949-6262 or visit www.cityofbonitasprings.org.

• Historic Everglades City celebrates the Fourth in old-fashioned style — on Sunday, July 5, with a grand parade, arts and crafts sale, a raffle and "the best fireworks display south of Orlando." The family festival takes place in McLeod Park beginning at 11 a.m. The parade starts at 1 p.m. Fireworks begin at 9 p.m. For more information, call 695-2905.