I told you there was dark magics involved.

Continued from this post…

Day two of the river festival sees a raft race takin’ place and the waterin’ hole where I work entered a raft.

About a week before the race, the crew got together to build it. Over the week various tweakin’ was done to get it just right.

On the mornin’ of the race, the raft was carried to the riverside by the crew…through town! (I missed this part, somehow managed to be elsewhere).

When I arrived, they’d added some final touches, mainly cosmetic…A jolly roger swayin , erm proudly in the wind. Some other piratey flags and most importantly the team mascot strapped to the front.

At this point some bloke armed with one of them clipboard thingy’s came round to check the thing was actually a raft and not some sort of sarnie in disguise…presumably.

Satisfied it was indeed a raft, he fixed some number to it and wandered off to check the other rafts.

The time came to put the raft in the water, and amazingly it floated (methinks there was some dark magics involved). And so the crew set off to start the race…

They were in the first heat, which was good…meant I didn’t have to wait around too long.

About a third of the way up river, some dirt cheatin’ team rammed the raft from behind and turned it around, so for a time the Bear’s crew was actually rowin’ the raft backwards!

Havin’ managed to get themselves facin’ the right way (more dark magics?) they went on to come second and into the final.

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention there was two different types of raft…normal ones, with flat fronts. And fast ones, them with pointy fronts. The Bear’s bein’ a normal type (unusual for us that…bein’ normal)

Time for the final, and this time no dirty cheatin’ underhand tricks. Boy did the crew have that raft flyin’ (well not actually flyin’ only birds do that).

And I wouldn’t have believed it if I hadn’t seen it with me own eyes, but they only went and won! (I told you there was dark magics involved).