#expafricarodrigues

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A visual dramatization to take you back to that gunmetal grey day dawning at #T6, about halfway through the epic 320km route at this year's @expafrica Adventure Race on #RodriguesIsland. Teams were hunkering down against the elements as 'The Island' bared its teeth, with 240x #ARheroes bracing themselves as they faced a brutal headwind paddle off the coast of this most easterly Mascarene island ... #itsallaboutrodrigues #ExpAfricaRodrigues #VisitRodrigues #AirMauritius #SPOTAdventure #arworldseries #expafrica2019 #SpotAfrica #ExpeditionAfrica #itsallaboutrodrigues #itsallaboutlove #kineticevents #ifollowthetribe #ishootwithorms #sonyxperiaza #hellosonyza #sonyza (at Rodrigues Island) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2Q8HMlH2cL/?igshid=npea0ymd5hql

[jacquesmarais]

You absolute bunch of beauts, #teamspotafrica! 🙌🏻 Loved shooting you #ar heroes on #expafrica2019, on @rodriguesisland. Huge congrats on your 13th position 🤟 #itsallaboutrodrigues #ExpAfricaRodrigues # #arworldseries #expafrica2019 #SpotAfrica #ExpeditionAfrica #itsallaboutrodrigues #itsallaboutlove #kineticevents #ifollowthetribe #ishootwithorms #sonyxperiaza #hellosonyza #sonyza (at Petit Gabriel, Rodrigues, Mauritius) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2GPiV-JMNh/?igshid=1rre5t56txu93

[jacquesmarais]

Sometimes those 3AM wake-ups really pay off, and this was certainly one of those mornings. The light at T6 went all Cecil B. de Mille about an hour before dawn, with a gunmetal grey sea, a dozen drifting pirogues, tired team members wading into the icy maw of the ocean, and the dawn light leaking out from the serried ranks of monochrome clouds scudding in on the horizon. It truly unfolded like the paraphrased remake of 'All Quiet on the Eastern Front. Racers were strewn around the transition like wounded soldiers, patching up scars, heating coffee water on their tiny stoves, sharing war stories and #SleepMonster incidents, or just in pause mode as they slip into the 1000-yard stare. This is what the #AR BattleFront looks like, and you cannot begin to imagine the ecstasy and agony until you have walked a thousand kilometers in their shoes. All I can say is that the @sonyalphasa #sonya7r3 rocks low light like nothing else, especially with thosr f1.8 lenses from @OrmsDirect 🙌🏻🙏 #itsallaboutrodrigues #ExpAfricaRodrigues # #arworldseries #expafrica2019 #SpotAfrica #ExpeditionAfrica #itsallaboutrodrigues #itsallaboutlove #kineticevents #ifollowthetribe #ishootwithorms #sonyxperiaza #hellosonyza #sonyza (at Port Mathurin) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1_xHeRptpv/?igshid=69tq8him3xty