The local scenery as we are driving to the Teva Lea river extreme race. I took this picture with me new teeny camera, so expect to see many more pictures.




















Our practice run. The boat I borrowed was not the best for this run. Luckily I was able to borrow another boat for the next 3 runs.







Morning briefing on race logistics. The whole weekend weather consisted of sunshine, rain and wind. It seemed to change every 15 minutes and in any combination. They say it is normal for Tassie spring.









This was the scene at the finish line. This event is really laid back and in the spirit of the event many of the participants wore costumes. Lora and I decided to use a running of the bulls theme since this was a partner race. You can see Lora's costume in the picture above. The idea of this race is that teams of two race down a class 4+ creek in as fast a time as possible. There were 18 teams with four teams being a mixed male/female team. We were the only married couple to enter the event EVER! We placed 13th overall and placed 3rd in the mixed category. Not bad for only paddling the creek the day before. We are also really out of shape. For being third we both received an IR paddling top and some sweet schwag. I was really proud of Lora. She even had an asthma attack half way through the 15 minute race and refused to stop. Don't worry Shirley(Lora's mom) she did have her inhaler with her so she would have survived.

We met a lot of good people here. They don't know it yet but they are soon to be our NBF's. Saturday night was a huge catered dinner and party. There was singing and drinking going on into the wee hours.

Sunday's event was a first ever slopestyle event down the three largest rapids. On the first rapid I threw my first ever freewheel off the waterfall. I love my new boat (the SCUD, a super short creek boat). The second drop didn't go as well for me. Lora ran all the drops to take video and did not enter the comp that day. We had to leave early to get one of the people riding in our car to the airport to fly back to Sydney.



Here's a picture of Lora styling the first drop.