Business has picked up in Home and Away these past few months thanks to the introduction of the River Boys from Mangrove River. They decided that Summer Bay offers a nice place to come surf whilst winding up Jon Palmer and Xavier Austin in the process.
The gang are led by Darryl ‘Brax’ Braxton. He’s a rather fine specimen of a man and appears to have brains as well as brawn. Brax has two brothers, Heath and Casey. Heath is a troublemaker and enjoys a scrap, like Brax he is another well chiseled chap. Casey is the youngest of the trio and is nothing like his brothers, he’s scrawny and lacking in tatoo’s for starters. He’s joined Summer Bay High and is in year 12 with the likes of Romeo and Ruby.
The River Boys marked their arrival by starting a fight at Angelo’s restuarant, a scene in which the returning Miles Copeland was smashed over the head with a bottle.
Other highlights from the River Boys have included numerous confrontations with Jon and Xavier, throwing Dexter Walker in the boot of a car and dumping him in the bush, Heath rescuing VJ Patterson from drowning, a fake drug dealing transaction involving jelly beans to annoy the police, and best of all, Brodie towing away Colleen Smart’s caravan during the night whilst she was asleep inside it!
Most interesting of all is the business relationship between Brax and Angelo which was forged when Brax saw that the business was struggling and offered Angelo some cheap alcohol and introduced pizza to the menu and as a take-away offering. Charlie Buckton is very suspicious of Brax and is tracking him closely, and she has every reason to as it seems that he’s using Angelo’s business for money laundering purposes.
There is clearly a spark between Brax and Charlie, he’s already been arrested for planting a smacker on her lips, and he even took Leah out on a date in an attempt to make Charlie jealous. Will Charlie be able to resist the Bay’s newest hunk in order to uncover his criminal ways? Or will she fall for his charms and become a crooked copper?
Whilst the River Boys are a welcome addition to the show, it’s a shame that the writers couldn’t have introduced an all girl group that do nothing but hang around on the beach every episode wearing thongs instead. We live in hope!




















































