Duck and truck
Amongst cows and other barnyard animals, the mascot for the Great Kitsap Duck Race was spotted yesterday in Gorst. It was a beautiful day so the sunglasses were definitely needed. The reason Big Yellow was hanging out with the Mattress Ranch menagerie is that the quirky Gorst business is one of the race’s sponsors. Or maybe it was because, as a great philosopher once said, “You have to be somewhere.” Note the replica of the duck on the Nissan pickup truck shown in the photo.
This year the Great Kitsap Duck Race is scheduled for Sunday, July 29 during 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. To participate you pay $5 for each rubber duck that represents you in the race. At race time the popular bathtub toys are dumped into a boomed-off area at the Silverdale Waterfront Park. The ducks that splash across the finish line first win great prizes. Top prize is a Nissan pickup.
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How can you tell which is yours? Do they have numbers on the? Will you enter? Will some of them join Moby Duck?
The ducks have a serial number that corresponds to the number on your raffle ticket. You can’t win if you don’t enter. One day my duck will come in. I don’t know if these ducks can withstand a long ocean voyage like the “floatees” described in Donovan’s Hohn’s book, which spilled from a container ship in the Aleutians. One thing is sure—rubber ducks are popular nationwide for raising money in events similar to the Great Kitsap Duck Race.