Ducks ready to set sail . . . the Five Buck a Duck Race is back. Rotary Club of Gisborne president Warwick Callender (left) holds some of the small yellow ducks that will be in the first wave of duck racers heading downriver from the Peel Street Bridge on Saturday, November 18. Fellow club member Julian Avisenis, who is a Life Education trustee, and Pat Seymour, who chairs the local Life Education organisation, hold “corporate ducks” that businesses can sponsor for $200 each. Picture by Liam Clayton
Life Education Trust is bringing back the Five Buck a Duck Race in Gisborne after a break of almost three years.
It will be held at 12.30pm on Saturday, November 18.
The race is a game of chance in which numbered yellow plastic ducks are dropped into the Taruheru River from the Peel Street Bridge, to be carried by the outgoing tide to a finish line near the Marina Park boat ramp. It has been com...
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