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august/2021 sat21aug9:00 amRunning of the
Bull9:00 amEvent Type :Events
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(Saturday) 9:00 am
Location
The Starboard
2009 Coastal Highway Dewey Beach, DE 19970
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You may have heard about the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona, Spain. The annual event draws thousands of energetic sprinters who do their best to outrun a contingent of bulls in hot pursuit.
You may have heard about the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona, Spain. The annual event draws thousands of energetic sprinters who do their best to outrun a contingent of bulls in hot pursuit. Dewey Beach, Delaware has its own version called the “Running of the Bull” and it is scheduled this year for Saturday, June 29. Well, actually “the bull” constitutes two humans dressed in a bull outfit.
The merriment starts around noon in the parking lot of the Starboard Restaurant and Bar, sponsor of the event that is billed as a fundraiser for the local police department. The actual “Run” is at 2 pm following a fly-over by vintage airplanes that streak past the restaurant and fly down the beach.
It is quite a scene featuring live music, flowing libations, an Elvis impersonator, matadors and lots of slightly tipsy revelers dresses in the traditional Pamplona white and red. In waves, the crowd makes it way across Coastal Highway, down the beach for four or five blocks, accompanied by “the Bull” and then resumes the festivities back at the Starboard. It’s all for a good cause.
This year’s event will take place on Saturday, June 29. More details can be found on the Visit Delaware website.
DEWEY BEACH, Del. – Saturday marks the return of an iconic event in Delaware ‘The Running of the Bull;’ a bizarre but fun day that thousands of people head to the beaches and bars for.
This all started 25 years ago when a customer named Michael McDonnell was watching Pamplona’s Running of the Bulls in Spain on TV. He had an idea to get someone in a bull costume and chase them down the beach. What seemed a bit wacky at the time has turned into one of the biggest weekends in Dewey.
People of all ages wear Pamplona-style red and white and prepare to see hundreds of participants stumble, fumble, and run from two men in a bull costume. “It was literally 30 people 25 years ago that ran down the beach chasing a guy with a bull head costume on the next year it was a hundred people, the year after that it was 300 people and so forth,” says Steve Montgomery, owner of the Starboard restaurant and bar. He adds, “So it’s really just silliness, fun, and really something this country could use more than anything right now between COVID, politics, gas prices, and all those other things, starboard is the place to be on Saturday to forget all that.”
Montgomery, owner of Starboard tells us, that this year they have the Baltimore Ravens mascot participating, the Washington Capitols mascot, and they’re hoping to get the university of Delaware mascot as well.
However, even more importantly, Montgomery says this all supports a great cause because they raise funds for the local volunteer fire company. They don’t just raise those funds but bring a lot of business to Dewey. “We call it the 4th holiday weekend in Dewey beach, I can promise you that every single business in this town thrives over this weekend,” says Montgomery. “The fourth of July is a 10 to 15-day weekend and I mean that from a business perspective. It’s busy, we know the traffic we know people are all coming for a week or 10 days or two weeks and it’s really the peak of the summer.”
Montgomery also says they expect to have lines wrapped around the building, and many hotels are already sold out.
The event kicks off Saturday, the 25th with a kids version at 10:30 a.m. between the Dagsworthy and New Orleans street beaches.
The actual event starts at the Starboard at noon, with the bull run beginning at 2 p.m. You can visit the Running of the Bull website for more information.
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