International Dragon Boat Festival (June 22-24, 2001)

On Saturday 23-June-2001 Frans Luit, Marieke Luit, Brendon Joseph and Ton went to watch the Dragon Boat Festival which took place at False Creek in Vancouver. Apparently Vancouver hosts the second largest festival after Hong Kong.

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Picture	Date	Description
	24-Jun-2001	Brendon and Ton biked along the seawall starting at the Burrard bridge to The Plaza of Nations. Across the water is Granville Island. Note: This is also Ton's daily bike route to work.
	24-Jun-2001	False Creek with Science World in the background and dragon boats on the water.
	24-Jun-2001	... the race is in full motion ...
	24-Jun-2001	The finish line. The smaller boat is filming for TV.
	24-Jun-2001	Close finish.
	24-Jun-2001	The peddlers must be pretty tired.
	24-Jun-2001	All boats have to turn around and peddle back to the start for the next round in the race.
	24-Jun-2001	A close up of one of the (winning) boats.
	24-Jun-2001	Peddling back to the start in front of the Plaza Of Nations.
	24-Jun-2001	We now moved from the Plaza Of Nations to Science World. This is the start line up. In the background we see a part of downtown Vancouver and BC Place Stadium.
	24-Jun-2001	Marieke and Frans.
	24-Jun-2001	Some graphical art ... or arch.
	24-Jun-2001	Science World.
	24-Jun-2001	Frans with Marieke reflected in his sunglasses.
	24-Jun-2001	Marieke with Frans reflected in her sunglasses.
	24-Jun-2001	Brendon.
	24-Jun-2001	Ton.
	24-Jun-2001	In a sudden a four propeller fuel plane showed up in the sky. It flew over the dragon boat area ...
	24-Jun-2001	... right over us ...
	24-Jun-2001	... and then it disappeared.
	24-Jun-2001	Brendon, Frans and Marieke at Science World watching the Dragon Boat races.
	24-Jun-2001	A tee-pee in front of the Art Gallery in downtown Vancouver (Georgia Street).

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