Daft Raft Race

The Stromness Shopping Week Carnival - a week sponsored by the local retailers in July - has been reduced to just three days in August (this weekend).  A lot of the usual competitions have been dropped for the time being and there were only four competing teams for the Daft Raft Race.  However, in spite of it being a cool drizzly evening with midges, there was a fair turn-out of spectators.
This is the moment before the raft on the right capsized.
Extra is my husband's photo of the raft's crew; they don't seem to be too unhappy about being tipped into the bay just a few yards from the start.