It's a nice sunny day

& here we are at SRRR06

Display of the rafts

& 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!

The "Mt Fuji Blossom tree" raft

& we have a collision!

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

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...