Information about the event can be found here.. http:\/\/www.texaswatersafari.org\/events.aspx?display=4\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Participants planning to be in canoes, start off at\u00a0 the Texas State University, ready to put their craft into the water by 8am.\u00a0 Race starts at 9am.\u00a0\u00a0 (Yes, it’s a timed race and an endurance event.)\u00a0\u00a0 Participants have only 100 hours to finish the course, and must check in at each check-point so the race officials know not to worry about sending out search parties to find them.From their website, we found the following description of this event….<\/p>\n
Today, the Safari is a long, tough, nonstop marathon canoe-racing adventure, traversing 260 miles of challenging rivers and bays. Many participants enter the race with no intention of winning, but with the goal of joining the elite group of finishers and earning the coveted Texas Water Safari finishers patch.<\/p>\n
Entrants must have all provisions, equipment, and items of repair in their possession at the start of the race. Nothing may be purchased by or delivered to a team during the race except water and\/or ice. Each team must have a team captain (18 years old, or older) whose responsibility it is to follow the team by vehicle (car, truck, or bicycle) to keep track of their location and condition and give them water and\/or ice. During the Safari, teams may not receive any assistance of any kind except verbal. Teams must be prepared to travel day and night, nonstop to be competitive, but teams who occasionally stop for sleep have been able to reach mandatory checkpoint cutoff times and cross the finish line by the 100 hour deadline.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This weekend is the Annual Texas Water\u00a0 Safari,\u00a0 down the Guadulupe River from San Marcos, TX, to the Gulf Coast in 100 hours, non-stop.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Local area Ham Radio Operators provide needed check-point safety communications along the river under some really tough conditions.\u00a0 Check points are down at the river level, often down where you can’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[813],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1082"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7682,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions\/7682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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This weekend is the Annual Texas Water\u00a0 Safari,\u00a0 down the Guadulupe River from San Marcos, TX, to the Gulf Coast in 100 hours, non-stop.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n