Milford Duck race Cleanup

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Well Semi back, will be on today but also have a lot to do, tomorrow I will be back to my normal routine
One Annual event that I used to go to every year here in Milford is the Milford Duck Race, which is a fun family event or many years it was run by a local school to raise money, but when the school closed the event stopped for a few years, and restarted last year ran by the United Way of Milford and the Woodruff Family YMCA as a fun family event and a fundraiser.
The Fun part os all the people going there to watch the race, and the Fund Raising is through people can buy a duck ( well they do not get the actual duck just the number on it) and prizes are donated and given to the first os many ducks that win the race.

I missed the event this year I forgot completely it was on at the time but happened to walk past as they were collecting the ducks after the race and that's what I will share in this post

Let me first show you the track for the duck race.

The ducks are dropped I believe by a Bulldozer off the bridge in this shot, below the firetruck and above the waterfall.

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You may wonder about the firetruck and the spraying water, that's part of the cleanup after the race and I showed some detail of the firefighters in this post, for this post I will share some shots of the duck cleanup.

The Ducks float down the river in the race, and the first so many are collected and the numbers noted for the prizes that are donated and given to the winners of the race, the flotation across the river is to stop by from floating away and out to the ocean.

The guy in the canoe in this shot is collecting the ducks and loading them into a canoe, they are then put into buckets and pulled up by members of the event staff up onto the bridge and stored away for future years events.

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This next shot is zoomed in to show more detail of the ducks collected into the canoe

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And another shot of the ducks, now I am probably too Old to still find rubber duckies floatign down a river or collected like this in a canoe, I still find it such a fun event.

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And another wider shot of the firefighters hosing down to get the ducks out of the rocks so they will float down to be collected

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