Late July every year Darwin in the Northern Territory of Australia is home to one of the worlds greatest events. The annual Beer Can Regatta. This event has been running for over 30 years and has raised thousands of dollars for the Lions Club’s community projects in the region. The event was spawned out of Cyclone Tracey in 1974. Thousands of interstate workers came to Darwin to help with the rebuild and after a hard days work they boys needed a beer or two to finish the day. There was a huge abundance of empty beer cans so some clever bloke called Lutz Frankensfeld thought the beer cans needed to go to a good use as there were no suitable recycling programs at the time. Lutz came up with the plan to turn the beer cans into boats and race them in a family day. Now some of the boats measure 12 metres long and are quiet sea worthy and take thousands of empty beer cans to build.
For more information visit their official website: http://www.beercanregatta.org.au/
