These images were taken by John Hishin of Drumbeat Photography Friday morning less than 24hrs before the race.

The water level started to increase from Friday morning around 2am and has come up by 20 cumics and rising.

As the river is now, going right at Sliding weir is a no go area. The lines at the moment are centre/ far left.

The low level bridge below Sliding weir is a portage/shoot on the left or right. The water is not flowing over the actual bridge.

Bollard bridge is shootable anywhere but the down stream bollards are nast at this level. They are invisable and the water does not push the nose of the K2 away! Treat this with extream caution!

Secunda Weir- go between the uprights left of centre and have fun in the big wave trains!

The Low Level Bridge 5km before the end is extreamly dangerous at the current level. You can shoot it any place in the middle. Currently the right side is out of bounds as is the far left. As you can see from the below images you don't want to go left.

We have cut a portage out on the left bank 100m upstream. It is clearly marked. Approach the take out at slow speed and eddie out facing upsteam and ASAP after the portage sign. failure to complete this will see you heading under the left side.

There are no strainer/blocks in the left side so if you go under the bridge you will be spat out the bottom.