So that is what 150,000 rubber ducks looks like!
RedMum | June 3, 2006I was going to write about rubber ducks but Heidi beat me to it, so I’ll just add some more pictures, I took hundreds.
I’m sure we will all be seeing ducks in the Liffey for some time to come. And it is all a bit of fun during the bank holiday.
There are more pics from the afternoon in my Flickr account. As soon as I can get them uploaded.






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that looks fantastic, great photos, I did see them but only a few, I must have been too late.
I saw about four floating aimlessly between O Connell Bridge and the Millennium bridge yesterday (Tuesday).
[...] Remember the Liffey Duck race? (DublinBlog.ie) The River Liffey race on June 3rd is a record attempt at the world’s largest plastic duck where 150,000 yellow plastic ducks will take part. [...]
WALKING ALONG NEWBOROUGH BEACH IN ANGLESEA, I SPOTTED A SMALL LONELY RUBBER DUCK WASHED UP ON THE SAND ON THE 24th AUGUST 06.
AFTER A SMALL SHOT OF WHISKEY A RUB DOWN WITH A DRY TOWEL I FIXED IT`S SQUEAKY. LITTLE SINEAD NOW SITS BY MY COMPUTER WHERE I AM AT PRESENT COMPOSING THIS AFTER FINDING HER ORIGINS
I KNOW SHE`S NOT UNIQUE BUT WE LOVE HER ANYWAY
i found one of your ducks number58949 on the isle of arran in
scotland. my family and i where there in august. we were walking
along the beach at kildonan when we spotted the duck on the sand.
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Alan,
That’s just so cool! I’ve just put a post up to see if we can find any more of these ducks in strange and unusual locations!
That is seriously cool. Thanks for letting us know Alan.
nice ducks, isnt there a beter way to raise moeny??
Thats a lot of duckies!
woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow now that is a lot of ducks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hi
Just found a duck on sunday the 6th December 2009, washed up at the smugglers cave (half way between skerries and loughshinny) no. 13152.