On Friday night we were down at the Forks to see the start of the 2007 Dragon Boat Festival, and especially to watch Dez race with her team mates from Price Waterhouse Coopers.
She was in two heat and their team performed well. They will be back again on Sunday to compete again. The weather was a little cool and it from watching the participants you get wetter that you think so by the end of the evenings racing there were lots of chilled folks looking for dry cloths and trying to warm up.
In the very first race there was an odd maneuver by one of the boats where it suddenly cut across the path of two of the other boats almost causing a collision! The boats race four at a time and have clearly defined lanes which they should stay in. The boats should always be travelling in parallel, but as you can see from this photo something has clearly gone wrong. Fortunately, there was no collision, but the race was really messed up.