We had a public holiday yesterday to celebrate Dragon Boating. The festival remembers a guy throwing himself into the river to make a political stand, a long long time ago. Ok, I'm a bit foggy on the details but I'm sure you know how to use Google if you want to know more.
Anyway the important thing was the International Dragon Boat races at Stanley. I went down yesterday to check it out, along with about 20,000 other people. There must have been about 200 teams, and they looked like they were having a great day!
I couldn't get very close to the action (remember 20,000 people...) but got an ok spot up high for a while, just enough to take a couple of photos. It brought back memories of dragon boating with Kelly :-)
Unfortunately the hot weather has well and truly kicked in so I didn't last very long. It was absolutely gorgeous weather from the air-conditioned bus on the way down there, but standing in the heat wasn't pleasant. Today was worse -the humidity made me remember how much I hate HK summer weather.
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