--- title: Australia Has a 'Beer Can Regatta' Every Year description: Bet you didn't know beer cans could do that, did you. canonical: https://time.com/2978655/australia-beer-can-regatta/ author: Bijan Stephen article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-07-12T18:48:31.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:11:38.073Z og:title: Australia Has a 'Beer Can Regatta' Every Year og:description: Bet you didn't know beer cans could do that, did you. og:url: https://time.com/2978655/australia-beer-can-regatta/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Australia Has a 'Beer Can Regatta' Every Year twitter:description: Bet you didn't know beer cans could do that, did you. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Australia Has a 'Beer Can Regatta' Every Year by [Bijan Stephen](https://time.com/author/bijan-stephen/) ## Bijan Stephen Jul 12, 2014 6:48 PM UTC by [Bijan Stephen](https://time.com/author/bijan-stephen/) ## Bijan Stephen Jul 12, 2014 6:48 PM UTC Each year, Australia’s Mindil beach plays host to the [Darwin Lions Beer Can Regatta](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin%5FBeer%5FCan%5FRegatta), a waterborne festival that celebrates the virtues of charitable giving and one’s instinct for building seaworthy vessels out of improvised materials (as you can see from the video). The event began on June 16, 1974, and has been held annually ever since. This year marks its 40th anniversary, and is irrefutable proof that Aussies are just better at having fun than the rest of us. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2978655/australia-beer-can-regatta/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2978655/australia-beer-can-regatta/"},"headline":"Australia Has a 'Beer Can Regatta' Every Year","datePublished":"2014-07-12T18:48:31.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:11:38.073Z","description":"Check out those cans!","url":"https://time.com/2978655/australia-beer-can-regatta/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Australia","Beer"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Bijan Stephen","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/bijan-stephen/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2978655/australia-beer-can-regatta/","name":"Australia Has a 'Beer Can Regatta' Every Year"}}]}] ```