Action Packed Dragon Boat Weekend

If you're looking for some non-traditional activities this weekend, the Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival is taking place all weekend long. Saturday and Sunday from 9-5, there will be dragon boat racing, food, and other cultural activities in Flushing Meadows Park. Dragon boat racing has a long history that, according to legend, symbolizes the race to save someone that committed suicide.

Gothamist will be there, participating in at least four races. How will you find us? We'll be the one dragging ass at the front of one of the boat. Fun times! No news on whether the snakeheads of the lake will make an appearance or not.

Directions to the event can be found here.

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By tien mao on August 12, 2005 2:50 PM

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tien

i was in the team that managed to come in last in each race it was in...fun times, fun times.

S.D.

Well, unless she changed teams, this one is a member of Team Xtreme.

Mary

Thanks for the ID and the complement. I was so busy taking pictures that I wasn't paying enough attention to the announcements. I had a great spot near where the teams were getting into their boats. Wish I could have stayed longer or gone back today, but I had a limited amount of time.

S.D.

Mary, nice pictures.

Looks like you got a good picture of the Women In Canoe team drummer. How'd they do this time?

I couldn't make it, but I heard that one of the teams from Philadelphia did very well.

Mary

I was surprised how many of the teams were finance related.

I put some of my pictures up on my flickr site http://www.flickr.com/photos/mtkr/ and will put more on my regular site http://nycphoto.interactivenyc.com today.

moses supposes

those boats aren't even made of dragons! I'm sooo dissapointed. Please beat the HSBC team! I hate those banking motherfuckers

pugsley

Snakeheads have been known to ram into the side of boats, puncturing holes in the hull. As the boat sinks a school of snakeheads can consume a human body down to the skeleton in less than thirty seconds.