Pictures: WWALS Boomerang paddle race 2021-10-23

Here are some more pictures of the WWALS Boomerang paddle race 2021, winners and all.

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Preparing

Gretchen and the video camera

Ramp and WWALS booth

Dry Pocket Apparel

Heading upstream to get ready

Water seeping out of the ramp

Bret Wagenhorst ready with the timeclock

Bobby explains it all

Arrow, Blondie, Honeybun: Suwannee Riverkeeper’s dogs with the McKenzie children

Movie: Go! (262M)

VSU CORE briefly in the lead, Lloyd Reeves about to pass

Re-setting the Finish banner

0:44:38 Scotti Jay, Bobby McKenzie, Finish banner, timeclock

Sara Jay with Blondie and Honeybun

Gretchen lends thread

0:46:32 Debi and Bird Chamberlain head the wrong way, 46 minutes late

0:47:23 Bird Chamberlain crosses Finish before paddling

Winners

Lloyd Reeves incoming

0:58:43 Lloyd Reeves, bib 33, wins First Prize and a new record

Gretchen’s lunch from B’s Backporch BBQ

1:00:20 Bobby and Scotti still fixing the Finish banner

Gretchen Quarterman and a VSU student videoing

1:03:34 Scotti thinks the Finish is finished

Downstream

Posts of the Old Horns Ferry Bridge

Palmettos around the bend

Sunshine fronds

Honeybun, Blondie, and Arrow

Upstream to Horn Bridge beyond State Line Boat Ramp

Down to the river bend

Creek that always runs

Horn Bridge pillars upstream

Horn Bridge zoom

Old Horns Ferry Bridge abutment

Sara Jay, Honeybun, Old Horns Ferry Bridge abutment

Blondie, Honeybun, spot WWALS tent

Suwannee Riverkeeper banner on WWALS tent

Taking Out

Russell McBride helps Jennifer and David Singleton take out

2:02:52 Bobby McKenzie keeping time

2:04:19 Melanie Stornuster coming in

2:04:22 Melanie Stornuster at Finish

More taking out

2:42:42 Adam Kangas in jsq’s kayak

VSU CORE lunching

VSU CORE closeup

Prizes

0:58:43 Lloyd Reeves gets a tumbler

0:58:43 Lloyd Reeves accepts the $100 First Prize

0:58:43 Lloyd Reeves hands back the $100 First Prize

0:58:43 Lloyd Reeves thanked by Bobby McKenzie

0:58:43 Gretchen photographing Lloyd Reeves with the check

Sponsor and WWALS banners

1:24:43 Russell McBride, Third Place

Bobby announcing winners

B’s Backporch BBQ

2:29:29 Adam Kangas, Second Farthest

2:29:29 Adam Kangas accepts his tumbler

Are you over there?

WWALS boats on trailer on left

1:38:26 Laquron Morse and Andrew Jacobson, First All Male Kayak, from VSU CORE

1:20:46 Elizabeth Brunner, First Female 4-mile

1:28:10 Jennifer Singleton, First 2-mile

2:43:20 David Zacher

2:46:46 Joelle Henry, Last

Bird and Debi Chamberlain, Wrong Way Prize

Auction dog

Silent Auction with dog

Arrow really does not like the nearby skeet shooting

-jsq, John S. Quarterman, Suwannee RIVERKEEPER®

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