Row, Row, Row canoes

On the first day of March this year, I returned home by bus. As the bus was crossing Banyan Bridge (翠榕橋), one of the three large bridges in Shatin, I noticed several young athletes rowing their canoes on Shing Mun River towards Tolo Harbour.

It was rare to see such a number of canoes going at a time. I noticed that the athletes were practising and their gentle rowing movements told that they were relaxing and enjoying, nothing of competition.

The narrow streamlined bodies with the spear-heads made the canoes go swiftly through the water when the long oars were rowed. The ripples that these canoes made had knitted a nice picture behind them.