http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Kai-Ikaika-Paddler/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Kai Ikaika Paddler en-us Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:07:45 +0000 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:07:45 +0000 Unfortunately we didn't have anyone to take pictures this year no one sat out so we have no racing photos However here are some post race photos. We got 1st place Gorging Dragons got 2nd. Our Go Kai Ikaika Gorging girl blow up doll named Gigi was a huge sucess. Big thanks to our FCRCC Canadian friends for helping us fill the boat and to Gorging for the great party I'll be seeing http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/Vancouver-Island/Victoria/blog-194979.html We went out on a boat to see killer whales. Super fun. We went with Prince of Tides Mark was our driver and he was GREAT Pictures not words... http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/Vancouver-Island/Victoria/blog-193810.html YAY We won the Victoria DB festival. There were 100 teams but our main competition was Gorging Dragons from Victoria. It was really fun. More pics on www.kaiikaika.org http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/Vancouver-Island/Victoria/blog-84588.html HI. More pictures of racing are posted under media gallery on our website at www.kaiikaika.org. Thank you to Courtney and Brian for taking and uploading all of those Thank you again to our sponsors Kona Brewing and Bamboo Grove and to the many friends and family who helped out with our trip.Tomorrow we are off to Victoria for everyone's favorite race of the year.erin http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Ontario/Toronto/blog-82587.html On Friday night we went out to Alice Fazooli's in Toronto for a big Italian dinner. All 32 paddlers managers coaches supporters and family members attended including my parents who had just arrived from ND http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Ontario/Toronto/blog-81382.html Saturday was another big day of racing. We ended up 10th in the 500m race which was of course not the same as first but whatever. We had a good race and felt good about it. The 2000m race was scheduled originally for Thursday but they moved it to Sunday night at the last minute and a few members of our team were flying out on Sunday morning so they let us race with the men on Saturday. W http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Ontario/Toronto/blog-81801.html First day of racing results We got 9th in the 200meter. Not exactly what we were hoping for but we did everything we could do and raced our race. Our friends to the north False Creek of Vancouver BC WON the 200m which was very exciting. The times were all within 12 seconds so the races were really close. The teams that finished ahead of us were mostly Canadian plus a few German and Au http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Ontario/Toronto/blog-81316.html These are some pictures of the opening ceremonies. It amounted to 80 standing around 3 parading 7 starving and 10 sorta listening. Our uniforms were definately the BEST of all the teams so we were popular with the press We found out today that The Oregonian mentioned us in the SPORTS section. YAY http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Ontario/Toronto/blog-81166.html Toronto is cool Walking around the city almost makes us forget we are here to RACE. Almost but not quite. We practiced on Wednesday and today for about an hour. The race course and venue are really nice. They built the course just this year for this race. It's a 500m course and has 5 lanes. We saw teams from China Australia Germany and Canada. The Chinese men's team paddles with a ra http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Ontario/Toronto/blog-81117.html We arrived in Toronto this morning. The flight was only 4.5 hours from Vancouver BC and the trip was fun. We will practice today at 3pm on the race course. Toronto is nice the hotel is great and they let us check in at 7AM http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Ontario/Toronto/blog-80778.html It's time for the Club Crew World Championships of Dragonboating in TorontoI should say I can't believe it's already here but I can. We have been dreaming preparing winning celebrating planning fundraising and most importantly paddling for two years to prepare for this day. Our first goal was winning the west coast USA PDBA Championship in Long Beach in 2005. Once we accomplished th http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Oregon/Portland/blog-80656.html Gorge Games 2006nbspNorth America raquonbspUnited States raquonbspWashington raquonbspColumbia River Gorge WA side By Kai Ikaika PaddlerJuly 15th 2006Kai IkaikaGorge Outrigger Race 2006 Stevenson WA. Tui Tonga men from Hawaii came for the race. A few of the pics are from Sheila I'm finally getting these up. The mens race pics didn't come out too great.. http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Columbia-River-Gorge-WA-side/blog-162464.html