A new dragon descends on a Nova Scotia lake for the summer
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The community of Fall River, N.S., watched in excitement on Saturday as Dillon, a new wooden-carved dragon, joined the town's long-time resident dragon, Emily, in a local lake.
The resident dragon of Fall River, N.S., has a new friend in its lake home.
Dillon the dragon, a wooden-carved serpent, descended into Miller Lake on Saturday afternoon and joined long-time landmark Emily the dragon, another wooden carving that has been floating in the waters since the early 2000s.
The scene was met with cheers and applause from the community, as boats ferried onlookers out into the water so they could have a front-row seat to see Dillon moving into his new habitat.
“It’s a beautiful addition to the lake,” said Greg Ward, who captained the boat that installed Emily the dragon back into the water.
He said the weather made for a “perfect” day to carry on the 40-year-long tradition of putting a dragon into the lake in time for the summer.
According to John Robidoux, the woodworker behind the new dragon, the history of fictional creatures lurking in this rural Nova Scotian lake dates back to the 1950s.
“It just started out as a log with a fork in it, and somebody came around and painted a face on it, made it look a little bit like a dragon,” he said.
Robidoux said different versions of the dragon started being introduced to the lake in the 1970s by a local resident named Patti Snow. He said Snow and her family finally settled on Emily the dragon in the early 2000s after some previous pieces were stolen.