Display of the rafts

It's a nice sunny day

& we are the official timers!

Lots of race lineups for the day

It's early on a sunday

Timers ready

Safety Ready

& they are off!

Racing untested hand made rafts can be a challenge in the river

The media race event

we have races not only on local opens, but international opens as well

A clean finish! (wheres the competition?)

1 min+ for the track team!

& we have a collision!

The "Mt Fuji Blossom tree" raft

Next was the walking on water event

Where we literally walk on water!

not all are lucky to stay balanced thou.

tracks won the 1st position again!

& hey where we tried after 4 full hours of timings

theres no obligation to dangle $8k of camera over the water too

there we lots of conjestions

not to mention splashes

that kept all of us very much entertained

till the next raft event!

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& man were the finals fast!

rafts made their way in & out here

The day ended with a time record broken

& here we are at SRRR06

Prize presentation

Prizes were awarded 10th position onwards

Theres even awards for best looking, innovative rafts.

& Track & field came in second overall

1st...

& even broke last year's record with a timing of 61s (from 86s) Crowning the grand trophy for track & field!

A good race, next year, we would be competing again & better...