Duck Fans Charter a Boat to Accompany the Giant Yellow Duck Back to Hong Kong

Two giant yellow ducks visited Hong Kong in pairs, just like the word “friends” in pairs. During the ten years since the yellow ducks visited Hong Kong twice, a group of duck fans have also changed from netizens to friends. Today (June 9) it was more than 20 Famous Duck fans even meet “Boat P” to go out to sea with Yellow Duck in Victoria Harbour, and reunite with “old friends”.

The yellow giant duck set off from Wanchai in the morning, launching the activity of chartering a “duck hunt”“Giant Yellow Duck” Facebook pageThe administrator Wincy has been following the yellow duck for ten years, and finally reunited with her “old friend” today. She lamented that the world has changed in the past ten years. “The yellow duck traveled around the world and returned to Hong Kong ten years later. Everyone loves Hong Kong very much.”

Text reporter: Zhong Jianhua

Photojournalist: Billy HC Kwok

Ten years ago, the rubber duck created by Dutch designer Florentijn Hofman, the “father of giant ducks”, first visited Hong Kong, attracting more than 8 million people to admire the yellow duck at the Tsim Sha Tsui Pier. Today, ten years later, Huang Ya suddenly appeared in Victoria Harbour. More than 20 duck fans jointly rented a yacht. They gathered at the Tsim Sha Tsui pier at about 10:00 this morning and boarded the boat, heading for the Government Headquarters “The Doors Are Always Open”. A pair of yellow ducks moored there this morning. When the yacht approached the pair of yellow ducks, a crowd of duck fans kept taking excited selfies, calling the yellow ducks “so pretty”. A pair of yellow ducks were swimming in Victoria Harbour. When the two ducks met, some duck fans on board shouted “Long live the yellow duck!” Looking at the shore of Central from the boat, many duck fans held up their miniature yellow ducks to welcome the giant duck dock.

Wincy, administrator of the “Giant Yellow Duck” Facebook page, was originally scheduled to lead duck fans to sing the popular song “Duck Song” on the boat, but many duck fans had no choice but to suspend the chorus due to seasickness. She is a physical therapist herself and founded the page ten years ago. When the yellow duck visited Hong Kong for the first time, she lived in Ting Kau and saw the yellow duck smiling at her every day. She felt very cured, so she opened a special page to share the joy that the yellow duck brought her, and became friends with many duck fans. So far, the page has more than 50,000 likes. “Someone asked me if I would sell the page. I don’t run the page for money.” Ten years ago, when the yellow duck appeared on the Tsim Sha Tsui Pier, the page’s interaction rate reached its peak, and then the number of likes dropped. But when she summoned duck fans to go on a boat trip to visit Shuangya on the special page “Blowing Chicken”, there was still a lot of response, “I was very “deadline” to initiate this trip spontaneously. I only asked duck fans on the special page two days before the event. Fortunately, there are still duck fans who are willing to board the boat together.”

“I will cherish everything in Hong Kong”

Wincy looked at a pair of yellow ducks, recalling herself ten years ago. At that time, she was full of hope for the future, and lamented that Hong Kong has been changing for ten years. “Some people think that Hong Kong can’t give them what they want, but I will cherish everything in Hong Kong, the good things in Hong Kong, and the relatives and friends I value; the world. It’s very big, Huang Ya traveled around the world and returned to Hong Kong ten years later. The Hong Kong people who left also hope to come back, and everyone has always loved Hong Kong.”

Architect sketches on board: feel happy

Kelsey, who sketched for the yellow duck on the boat, is an architect himself, and loves to capture beautiful and humane pictures on weekdays. He hopes to draw a series of quick drawings for the yellow duck to record the emotions between Hong Kong people and the yellow duck. In the past ten years, he believes that the enthusiasm of the duck fan community for yellow ducks has not changed, but the environment in Hong Kong has changed. “In the past ten years, everyone has to face problems, big and small. How everyone in Hong Kong adapts, my method is “feel happy”.

Aqi, a duck fan, is about 40 years old. Ten years ago, she was holding a BlackBerry keypad phone to chase yellow ducks. I feel that the times have changed, and the world will change in ten years.” Aqi believes that the epidemic has brought about great changes in the past ten years. She has traveled all over the world and had to stop when the epidemic broke out. “I would think that the epidemic will last three years. Is the “return to normal” after that really a return to normal? Can I go back to being who I was three years ago? But it seems impossible.”