White water rafting

Today’s adventure – a bit of gentle white water rafting, something I’ve only done once before, in Canada about 10 years ago.

Put the small camera in its waterproof casing for the trip, so some shots on flickr, but unfortunately the lens misted up a bit. Still you can get the idea.

Set off from the hotel about 9am, thinking that I was going to be the only one, only to turn round two pick up two more people, Alex and Gemma, who’d had a bit of a session the night before. We then had a bumpy ride up the mountains to the start where we were all equipped with helmets, lifejackets and paddles, before setting off down river, one boat with the three of us plus two guides, an another with three more guides, who spent a lot of time larking about – the river must seem quite tame to them at the moment. It didn’t seem that tame to us, but we survived without anyone falling overboard except when the guides deliberately jumped off, and only getting totally soaked.

PS photos now all on flickr - and a better pic put at the top of this post