VERY enjoyable riverside event for me, first time I saw raft tug-of-war and decorated raft in my life, and I went on one of the raft together with the District Officer of Penampang, beautiful lady Luvita Koisun.
Of course as a child I had been crossing rivers with bamboo rafts but they were just ordinary raft that can carry up to 5 passengers before they started sinking.
These decorated raft actually had plastic pipe flotation devices below them for added stability and safety and fitted with a real boat motors.
Creativity of the locals and organiser.
Organisers: Local community leaders chaired by Jacky Lettong
Supported by NGO : CLEAR = Community Led Environmental Awareness for Rivers : Leader Winnie Jimis
Supported by PACOS local executive Anne Lasimbang
Supported by government departments including Fisheries and Bomba and guarded by SRS or Skim Rondaan Sukarela = Voluntary Patrolling Scheme.
Here are some photos for you to copy if you like:
Site of venue: background is downstream showing location of Monsopiad Cultural Centre
The River bank cleaned up by the local residents with fishing spot and concrete staircase jetty and a strong canopy shelters
District Officer planting a fruit tree seedlings with here bare hands
One for the album after the official work was completed. Flanking the DO was at left Winnie Jimis of CLEAR and right, Anne Lasimbang of PACOS
Children doing their artwork on save the river theme.
Arrival of the Decorated Raft. This must be the winner judged based on stability, safety, decoration and creativity.
Another colourful raft with rubber tyre tubes at the back
District Officer taking a ride on one of the decorated raft
Smaller raft used for the tug-of- war. The river flow was slow so there was not much drift downstream when the paddling was done. Sadly the water quality of river is rather shameful
Tug of war in action, paddle paddle come guys put more muscles into it.
The only two competitor from Australia. They were part of PACOS team studying the effects of earthquakes to the community around Kinabalu.
Lastly the District Officer check out the commercial rubbished being dumped at the bank of the river.
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