Dragons can swim?

Actually, I'm not really sure if they can swim.  But, I do know that they can go really fast on water if manned by 20 people.  

Today we stumbled across dragon boat racing on the Singapore River at Clarke Quay. 

Dragon boats are basically long boats that are paddled by a crew of 18 with a drummer in the front and somebody steering in the back.  The boats themselves have the head and tail of a dragon affixed to them (you can see it in the picture above).  The drummer is on the boat to call out instructions to the team and to beat the drum to give the paddlers a pace to paddle to.

The teams today were from different crews around Singapore.  The picture above is of the men's American Dragon Boat crew.  Unfortunately, they did not win the race.  The speed and power that they created during their race was pretty amazing.  Take a look at the white around the boats...it'll give you an idea to how fast they were going.