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That's Carol second from the left working her paddle like crazy. Not many grandmothers could handle a trip down the raft-tossing Ocoee River. Thom and Sarah are in the front of the raft. Third from the left is Kim, Thom's wife. The boat captain, all the way to the left, was a slim young thing named Lulu. She was about Sarah's size, but she was plenty strong enough to manage a raft full of people. (Just so you know! The Ocoee River photos in this album were shot on the lower half of the 1996 Olympic Whitewater Slalom course on a day when the water was running high and fast. The big ROCK is right about the spot where most of the Olympic judges watched that world-class competition on a world-class whitewater river.)