TUESDAY 7 August

Morning:

Dawn’s Early Light Walk and Big Breakfast – with the Alderney Wildlife Trust

Auditions for the “Alderney’s got Talent” show

 

Afternoon:

Dive-for-a Plate – Inner Harbour

The Great Aurigny Duck Race – Commercial Quay (ducks go on sale from 11.00)

Aurigny Manpowered Flight – Inner Harbour

Family Scramble Dinghy Race

Canine Capers

 

Evening:

Yard of Ale Competition in the Rose & Crown Pub Garden

Pre Theatre Picnic Time – Ormer House School Gardens     

"Twelfth Night" last performance by The Rain Or Shine Theatre Company -   Ormer House School  Gardens   

“Hollywood Diner” - Family Quiz Night at Island Hall – it’s all about films, stars and Hollywood.  

Film at the Alderney Cinema: “Spiderman 3”

 

Demand for those high speed yellow plastic ducks racing in this year’s Great Aurigny Duck Race was high.  £5 for your own individually numbered bath tub favourite and, if yours was first to paddle across the Inner Harbour, you secured 4 return air tickets between Alderney and Southampton.

The Dive-for-a-Plate Contest made a welcome return and, while the competition proved a touch daunting for some youngsters.  

And the ever popular and revitalised Man-Powered Flight did not disappoint a 1,000-strong audience with highly  imaginative entries each one piloted by a copper-bottomed super star in keeping with the Alderney Week theme and vying for big prizes for best designed flying machines and costumes.

Lodging yourself off a ramp 25-ft above the sea in an attempt to defy gravity is not everybody’s cup of soup but, hey, this is Alderney Week.

The pilots and cabin crew were super stars all, but there have to be winners. The best flying machine turned out to be “the Flying Tuxedos”. The most original was “Shrek”, the best youngster’s entry was “Happy Feet” and the furthest flyer was “The Wrong Brothers”.

Both events were sponsored by Aurigny Air Services and Malcolm Hart, the company’s MD, was there to present the prizes. Then it was time for the Family Dinghy Scramble, a very popular event which again saw a  good number of participants prepared to fight “dirty” to secure a place on the podium. This fun event was sponsored by Fairline.

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