Boats and Babies in Baskets

A few weeks ago in the big town near here there was a weekend of Speed Boat racing .

The boats had to race around buoys on the sea for a number of circuits before a winner was known.

The harbor area in the town was crowded with people on bikes and on foot who wanted to see all the noisy speed machines.

The speed boats had to be lifted by a crane onto the water and it was a tricky thing to do as the boats were very heavy and there were many people crowding around where the crane was.

There were adults, children and dogs all eager to see how they get the boats onto the water and also all the men were having a good long look at the boats and probably wishing that they could be one of the drivers speeding through the water!

There were boats of all shapes and colors and there were even small remote controlled boats that had been built by men who loved to do that sort of thing and they were all together in a tent down on another beach where they put their boats on the water and directed them with the remote controls. They had a lot of fun doing that and it was certainly less noisy than the speed boats.

After we had looked at all the different boats and watched some of them race on the sea we walked back to our car through the market . At the end of the market we saw this cut little dog -a long haired chihuahua-sitting happily in its owners shopping bag while she bought her vegetables. So cute and unlike the speed boats she didn't make a sound!