Only a month and a half until the big race
Always take your camera with you when you go to Silverdale. That’s my motto and my advice to Kitsap bloggers whose backlog is getting a bit thin. Although I posted an entry titled Duck Time in 2009, a sighting of Big Yellow this morning in Silverdale was worth a new photo. Looking cool and rested, the mascot for the Great Kitsap Duck Race was securely tethered outside Kitsap Bank on Silverdale Way. Even if we have a repeat of Monday’s high winds, the cement blocks should keep the giant duck from getting airborne.
The Great Kitsap Duck Race is scheduled for Sunday, July 31, 2011, the final event in the Whaling Days Festival. Sponsored by the Silverdale Rotary Club and about 30 other businesses and organizations, the race raises money for civic groups in the community. “Duck Season” kicked off on June 2nd this year to allow plenty of time for the thousands of available duck tickets to be sold. I have never seen the race live, but I always get a “quack pack”—a flock of five ducks—to represent me in the race. Maybe this will be the year one of my ducks splashes into the money.
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Maybe this will be the year you see it live. I always thought the version I was getting on email was the final one. But looks like you changed this after it was sent?