--- description: Bet you didn't know beer cans could do that, did you. title: Australia Has a 'Beer Can Regatta' Every Year image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Australia Has a 'Beer Can Regatta' Every Year by [Bijan Stephen](/author/bijan-stephen/) ## Bijan Stephen Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 12, 2014 6:48 PM CUT by [Bijan Stephen](/author/bijan-stephen/) ## Bijan Stephen Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 12, 2014 6:48 PM CUT Each year, Australia’s Mindil beach plays host to the [Darwin Lions Beer Can Regatta](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin%5FBeer%5FCan%5FRegatta "undefined"), 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"}}]}] ```