Paddling Heaven

For South Africans, where our good paddling rivers are some distance away from population centres, it is just mind blowing to see the venue for the recent World Wildwater Champs.

Just look at the water. We're used to muddy brown water with only a few races run on 'clean' water - notably the Drak Challenge.

Lovely clean water, looks like nice fun rapids with a good flow.



Then the ambience of the town Ivrea in the Piedmontese region of North-West Italy.

Beautiful old architecture that is where real people actually live.

It appears that the locals and the organisers really went out of their way to make the whole event truly mememorable.

I can only imagine what a buzz it must be to paddle through this beautiful town.



And it appears that the European early summer decided to play ball. Look at the beautiful sky.

Paddling heaven indeed.