SOS breaks more new ground with theme park event
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- Last Updated: Monday, 14 December 2020 20:02
Our partner organisation Bold Horizons took adventure racing another step further with a superb event at Raging Waters on Saturday morning.
Orienteers were granted special access to the Western Sydney theme park (formerly known as Wet n Wild and before that Australia's Wonderland), with a very early start window of 7.30-8.30am and everyone out by 9.30am.
Courses ranged from 1-4km, the highlights of which were the occasional forays into the water features (marked with a blue asterisk).
One of these was a huge bucket that tipped its contents when full (see pic bottom left of Garingal's SI guru Colin Burnett getting dumped on).
Duncan Currie, back from Canberra on uni holidays, sped around the 3.5km Breaker course (actual length closer to 4.9km) in just 22 minutes. Fellow Stinger Toby Wilson blitzed the 3.4km (actual ~4.6km) Cyclone course in 20m37s.
Lyn Malmgron's awesome map contained far more intricacy than was first apparent, using the many cabanas and shade shelters to great effect and the garden beds to create puzzling route choices.
You can see Tony Hill's great photos of the event on Facebook here.
Thanks to Bold Horizons, Raging Waters, the 80+ participants and especially Barbara Hill who conceived and designed the event. This was so much fun.
