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5:00pm, Sun 28 Jun 2009 :  Hamilton Island Outrigger Carnival 2009
 Long race paddlers at Dent Is, North West
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 With the end of the financial year on the doorstep, nothing else could be further from the minds of the 1000 odd Outrigger canoeists that turned out at the Hamilton Island Outrigger Carnival.

Fighting off concerns about the GFC, credit crunch and tax incentives for small business and "working families", Friday and Saturday were filled with various events, with the culminating long race on Sunday. Rounding Dent and then Pentecost Islands, this event is not for the romantically inclined that fancy a bit of row around the pond with a loved one. These guys take on a 40+ km course!

Luckily, the weather was kind and the crews are able to change out during the event. In nearly glassy conditions records were broken by the lead teams. Meanwhile the tiring are able swap out, by bailing out with new crew ready to pounce from the water into the empty positions. It requires some precision, but still appears ungainly as the retained crew attempt to keep the vessel moving and the freshies clamber on board and take up the stroke.

After such a big day out you would think that they deserve a break, but the outrigger folk have a reputation to uphold. Crowded into Front Street, Hamilton Island, most in ridiculous wigs, they quite literally hung from the rafters. A chin up comp of course, resulting in the instigator taking a tumble in an ugly looking fall. Springing back to his feet with claret pouring from his head, it actually turned out to be a couple of glasses of "house red" that he had taken out on the way down.

Apparently undamaged, his mates settled him down with a stern talking to and it was back to the party.

Down on the dance floor, the second of the cover bands had taken over with the 70's and 80's alive and well to groves of a packed dance floor. Taking out first prize in the dress stakes were the cannibal women, complete with inflated clubs and leopard skin. How did I know that they were cannibals??? Ummm...

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