Activity: River kayaking
Location : Local pools, Grey & arahua river
Duration : all week
Difficulty : pushing my limits
Weather: fine/cloudy
Injuries: none
First we started to learn the basics of kayaking down at lake brunner, it was such a different feeling being upside down in the water well still attatched to the kayak.
Then i had my first time ever kayking in a river, unfortunetly we started off in the Greyriver well it was flooded and so didnt turn out too well as i ended up rolling 30 seconds in and as i hadnt learnt to roll yet i freaked out and evacuated the kayak with a huge struggle to get to shore as the rescuers were just learning how to kayak aswell.
Over the next two days we spent our time in the Hokitika and Greymouth pools learning how to roll so we would be able to attempt some of the harder stuff well being self reliant to perform a self rescue. Although my roll was half assed and needed much more work i was able to get myself up and celebrate.
For our second river trip we attempted the lower half of the aharua? river. i still bailed alot but was able to get myself back up with an eskimo roll but was still very wary of the rocky rapids as they could prove disastrous when trying to get back up as the face is vulnruable to the jagged rocks.
we then unintentionally attempted what seemed like a much rougher rapid than grade 2 so we end up combining our boats for extra stability but failed as chris's boat came ramming into ours at full speed and toppling himself over well nearly bring us down with him. as this was my second river trip i was extremely freaked out.
this concludes our first week of kayaking and really cant wait for our second as i am really enjoying this part of the course
Location : Local pools, Grey & arahua river
Duration : all week
Difficulty : pushing my limits
Weather: fine/cloudy
Injuries: none
First we started to learn the basics of kayaking down at lake brunner, it was such a different feeling being upside down in the water well still attatched to the kayak.
Then i had my first time ever kayking in a river, unfortunetly we started off in the Greyriver well it was flooded and so didnt turn out too well as i ended up rolling 30 seconds in and as i hadnt learnt to roll yet i freaked out and evacuated the kayak with a huge struggle to get to shore as the rescuers were just learning how to kayak aswell.
Over the next two days we spent our time in the Hokitika and Greymouth pools learning how to roll so we would be able to attempt some of the harder stuff well being self reliant to perform a self rescue. Although my roll was half assed and needed much more work i was able to get myself up and celebrate.
For our second river trip we attempted the lower half of the aharua? river. i still bailed alot but was able to get myself back up with an eskimo roll but was still very wary of the rocky rapids as they could prove disastrous when trying to get back up as the face is vulnruable to the jagged rocks.
we then unintentionally attempted what seemed like a much rougher rapid than grade 2 so we end up combining our boats for extra stability but failed as chris's boat came ramming into ours at full speed and toppling himself over well nearly bring us down with him. as this was my second river trip i was extremely freaked out.
this concludes our first week of kayaking and really cant wait for our second as i am really enjoying this part of the course
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