Belated Update
In the last few months we have managed to take Elenya out once (to Waiheke) and have been on three kayak trips.
The first trip we met up with some friends and kayaked the Aniwhenua section of the Rangitaki River. Some of us three times.
The second trip over Easter we did three rivers: the first was a grade 2 section on the Tongariro including a great standing wave play spot at the end of the grade 3 Access 10 run. We carried the kayaks up and played that way and then did a run down the river (the downside of it being just the 2 of us was it made shuttles difficult! I ran back to get the car while Jim lay in the sun and ate ice cream!). Next stop was the Tarawera river where we camped at lovely DoC campsite by the lake. We did a run on the river and also mucked around where the slalom course is. On the way home we stopped off at the Kaituna and played at the top where the slalom course is (if we kept going down the river we would have been doing some grade 4-5 waterfalls!)
The Tongariro is nicely about half way between Wellington and Auckland so for the third trip we met up with some friends at Turangi. We had one good day kayaking but unfortunately I bashed my shoulder on a rock and Bridget came away with several bumps and bruises so we had a lazy day on Sunday.
Pick which is our accomodation
View down the river
Oops!
That better!
No we didn't kayak here (falls on the Tarawera river)
...or here. The water pours out of a crack in the cliff (Tarawera river)
PS Note that there are no photos of Jim upside down as I got into trouble for posting the photo of him practicing rolling his sea kayak at Waiheke!
The first trip we met up with some friends and kayaked the Aniwhenua section of the Rangitaki River. Some of us three times.
The second trip over Easter we did three rivers: the first was a grade 2 section on the Tongariro including a great standing wave play spot at the end of the grade 3 Access 10 run. We carried the kayaks up and played that way and then did a run down the river (the downside of it being just the 2 of us was it made shuttles difficult! I ran back to get the car while Jim lay in the sun and ate ice cream!). Next stop was the Tarawera river where we camped at lovely DoC campsite by the lake. We did a run on the river and also mucked around where the slalom course is. On the way home we stopped off at the Kaituna and played at the top where the slalom course is (if we kept going down the river we would have been doing some grade 4-5 waterfalls!)
The Tongariro is nicely about half way between Wellington and Auckland so for the third trip we met up with some friends at Turangi. We had one good day kayaking but unfortunately I bashed my shoulder on a rock and Bridget came away with several bumps and bruises so we had a lazy day on Sunday.
Pick which is our accomodation
View down the river
Oops!
That better!
No we didn't kayak here (falls on the Tarawera river)
...or here. The water pours out of a crack in the cliff (Tarawera river)
PS Note that there are no photos of Jim upside down as I got into trouble for posting the photo of him practicing rolling his sea kayak at Waiheke!
posted by Elenya at 10:48 pm
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