Waiting in the water are small boats and bamboo rafts. The rafts, normally used for oyster-raising operations, ferry the Daoist priests and the temple celebrants to the open water beyond the mouth of the harbor, where they release one floating lantern after another. These serve as a signal to the drowned spirits that the way has been prepared for them to come ashore.
港邊停滿了小船與竹筏，平日養蚵用的竹筏載著道士與寺廟主祭人員向港外馳去，然後放下一座座的水燈，表示水路已開，溺水的幽魂將陸續上岸。