Kinetic sculpture races are organized contests of human-powered amphibious all-terrain works of art, often hilarious, and typically designed by the contestants. I found the people as interesting as the kinetic sculptures, here at the 15th Annual Kinetic Sculpture Race in Ventura, CA.

Enjoy the sights of this humorous event...

:D

Emerging from the water during the aquatic part of the race. They would race in water, sand, figure-eight on the parking lot of the Ventura Harbor, and finally, through the mud. My gnome friend and his wife had a great time.

I had a great time, meeting up with Chris, Nora, and Dave from a photography meetup group, eating at a Greek restaurant and enjoying chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream afterwards, and taking lots of photos of this fun event.

I had seen the Kinetic Sculpture Race in Ferndale a long time ago, and this was a scaled down but no less fun version of it.