Dragon Boat Race

We walked into Florence, AL, today.  The downtown area is clean and vibrant.  Renovated buildings kept the original storefronts and facades with old store names.  Very cool.  Then we came back to the marina to watch the Shoals Dragon Boat Festival.

There are 50 teams competing.  We saw a couple of heats.  Here are the Valley Vikings:

Here's the first heat they were in: (Movie had to be removed in order to print this.)