The ancient sport of dragon boating has found its way to Napier's shores as a new club forms.
The sport, which has Chinese origins, has found popularity in many parts of the world, often among breast cancer groups.
The newly established Hawke's Bay Dragon Boat club wanted to see something similar happen in the Bay.
When Jacob de Feijter, a dragon boat coach from Wellington, contacted the Hawke's Bay Breast Cancer Trust, new club secretary Dot Foote was interested in getting the sport moving in this region.
New to the sport herself, Foote was inspired to start a Hawke's Bay club as a way for people to be active which she describes as "physically and emotionally restorative".