Sunday, 21st March.  Following on from the huge success of the 2009 event the Bevan Dashwood Dash is on again.   There is a course for everyone;

Bring your whole family; enjoy the beautiful surrounds of the Kent St Weir and support the Slalom Technical Committee’s Cafe.  Deluxe hamburgers are back (order online to avoid missing out) along with cakes, muffins, tea & coffee.

 

Canoeing Down Under have generously donated PRIZES PRIZES PRIZES - $50 prize for the competitor with the fastest time. Various other class prizes are up for grabs and the monster raffle will be on again.

 

Money raised goes towards sending juniors to the  2011 Canoe Slalom Nationals in New South Wales.

 

Online Registration open Sunday 7^th March

 

More on the Bevan Dashwood Dash
This race is an old favourite - the upper reaches of the Canning make for a twisty-turny course with tree lined banks and much birdlife. There's a portage at Kent Street Weir. It's easy to get lost if you haven't done this course before so photocopy the street directory of the relevant pages and do a practice run. The floating (rather pretty) "weed" you see may slow you down, but it's harmless. The following paragraph comes from a February, 1999, edition of Canoe WA, the canoeing association's former magazine: 

"According to a scientist at the Water and Rivers Commission it (the "weed") is a harmless floating fern called azola which helps to keep the blue-green algae at bay (competes for the nutrients). Currents and the wind cause it to collect in certain places. You can paddle through it; it's not toxic and will wash off your boat."

 

He's one of that group of pioneering canoeists who started it all in Western Australia in the mid sixties. And he's still paddling! He started up Darling Range Canoe Club whose home waters are this section of the Canning River.  He has made an important contribution to canoeing, in particular, slalom, and is a life-time member of the state canoeing association.

2010 State Juniors