Slap Rafting, Cetina River, Croatia

Thankfully we woke up today to much better weather than yesterday and ventured off early to go white water rafting on the Cetina River. And what an experience it was.

The Secret Six - Wendy, Ross, Gill, Steph, Brad and I - all got to raft together with our guide Marco. We experienced a ten kilometre rafting trip that took about three hours to complete, starting near the town of Slime, down the Cetina River and ending near the town of Omis. The ride included some gentle water ways and some more exciting rapids. Marco took us through our instructions and it was quite hilarious when we kept getting orders to turbo (go 200%) and bomba (sit in the boat with your paddles us) mixed up with half the boat doing one action and the other half doing the other. At one stage doing the bomba I was flat on my back completely underwater thinking we were sinking. It was a lot of fun.

We stopped at one stage for the more adventurous ones to jump off a cliff and silly me decided that of course I wanted to do it too. Out of the eighteen in pur group only five of us tried it. Thinking I was still young and fit, I was all for it. But one mis-step and my plan of a graceful entry into the water went out the window. I landed with a massive slap on the water and the sound of “oh no” from the people watching. I now know why they call their company Slap Rafting. Comment of the moment came from Louie, one of our group who wears a hearing aide. He said without his hearing aide on he still heard me hit the water. I’m glad I could entertain.

It was such a fabulous day and an amazing experience. Even though I am now badly bruised I would do it again in a heartbeat. It was a great activity for our last morning on the cruise.Read more