Day 3 - Waiting for the BEAST

G'day everyone,

well not much happend today. Just waiting and hoping for sun and snowmelt. The boys got on the river today and paddled down the Main channel from Bus Eater down. Nothing of note...

I opted out of the on-water missions to meet a bloke about a house. Thanks very much Bryan who has surplied some of the fluid boys with a warm house (did i mention it was warm?)

anyways -am having a ball breaker tomorrow with any luck. lots of boating...i wonder if my fingers will fall of?? huh...will see...

Peace out.

Adrian

Freestyle Wolds first SWIMMA !

So...young liam is sure to get the "other" prize for swimming on the first day on the river.
He would love to say that it was getting worked in a MASSIVE hole, but...actually...he swam in the eddy, falling into the rope and pumping his deck. losing all his gear and a french blokes paddle for good!!!

1st prize "fool" award goes to

LIAM CORR

Congratulations!!
you tool

World Freestyle Championships - 12.4.07

Bored @ Vancouver Airport

The boys checkin' out Bussy

So laim and i flew into ottawa late last night. stayed at a hostle. Erin was kind enough to pick us up and along with lachie we drove up to Wilderness Tours to check in for the 2007 WORLDS! Quickly dropping their kit, lachie, liam and james grabbed boats and trudged through the snow to the river. Liam and james meeting their freestyle hero's Patrick Camblin and Rush Sturges at bus Eater...unfortunatly the level is still to low due to it still friggin SNOWING! Im sure a couple of days rain or sun will bring the river up enough. It is currently 10.5 ish. anyways...ill get on the river when my boat arrives and the sun is out and the water is warm....well...dreaming!

Fear Canyon - Lynn Vally Falls, BC Canada

So, Liam Corr, one of the australian junior Freestyle paddlers also heading over to the worlds, joined me for what was to be a week boating in BC before flying to Ottawa. After some complications at the airport, he arrived 3 days late. cutting our boating time in half...sad... but atleast we got all the bad sh*#t out of the way at the start of the trip! With a large time limitation, we drove liam directly from the airport to a nice BC Classic creek run, Fear Canyon on the upper Elaho. Not a bad way to start a trip!! After a pretty solid swim, he finished the run unscathed and in good spirits...not many pics of the run (fingers too cold to push buttons on cameras!!) we then spent the next 2 days snowboarding in whistler and scouting out a few falls for next time before returning to vancouver for our flight...BC i will be back!!!

C'mon...balls... i need big balls....grrr (Adrian Kiernan)

Does it look any better from up there?, looks f*#% horrible from down here!!

Liam scouting out Lynn Vally Falls

Australian Summer is long....and dry

Sponsors for the world championships!

A BIG shout out to my sponsors for this trip!:Celliers Krugar- The owner of Fluid Kayaks and a bloody good bloke!

Leigh Whiting- Australias very own Kayak 4 Play man and dealer of Astral, Immersion Research and H20 paddles

Jerermy "jez" Blanchard- Entropy Gear's owner and designer.

Geoff Batton- From Adventures Unlimited, my travel agent who saves me lots of money and can look after you too!!

Paddleporn.avi

Paddleporn.avi was announced the winner of the Lounge kayaker White-water short film Festival.


Produced by, Adrian Kiernan
Additional footage by, Anton Immler (cant find your email bro...write me!)
Location, BC-Canada, Uganda and Tasmania

Check it out

Pringle's Vid from Uganda

James 'Pringle' Bebbington :-)

www.pommieproductions.com

World Freestyle Kayaking Championships - Taiwan

Ok, so im now very very bankrupt, and flying to canada, and have no work for a month and bit...why?
Because its the friggin worlds... thats why!...live life...

well im now in Taiwan getting ready to head to vancouver for a week of paddling at skookumchuck and creeking, then its off to the ottawa river for the worlds on the scariest wave i have seen...bus eater & gladiator! I cant wait!

I ordered a soup yesterday for dinner...determined that i was going to try authetic Taiwanise food, i walked into the only resteraunt that had no english on the menus. ordered by number a dish which had a very short title...i figured that a short name ment that is was plain and simple!
-Not to be -
when it arrived at my table the waiter gave me a "your not going to actually eat that are you!" look and proceded to stab the live octapus with a short fat metal knife. now dead...he left me to eat it. the flavor of the soup was great...kind of like miso and hot....but the now recently dead octapus just couldnt seem appealing! There were also rosted grasshoppers on a plate next to it (they are not to bad...tried them in uganda...salty)

Anyways, looking forward to getting some great footage to share with everybody back home!
Adrian

B'day, Franklin River, TASMANIA

With last years record of 13hours in a fiberglass boat and 17 hours in a creek boats of a full decent on the mighty franklin river. My mates Robin and George headed down the ditch to compete with the shamefully slow record to create our own kick arse time of 4 days. It was our chance to complete a cruisy trip through tasmania's amazingly beautifull scenery and untouched west coast wilderness of the Gorden - Franklin River World Heritage area. It was my last chance to catch up with my buddies from home before setting of oversaes once again and also my chance to drink copious quantaties of sambuca for my birthday



some greate pics!
peace out...