Kayaking on the Rio Cabriel

No sooner had I written yesterday that we were going to chillax today, than I had booked us onto a white-water kayaking trip on the Rio Cabriel. It meant a 10am start from the village.

We were both expecting something easy, a bit like the River Wye, but it actually turned out to have quite decent rapids. We had to wear wetsuits and helmets which were weren’t expecting.

The trip included a section where we both had to swim down one of the longer rapids to practice our safety position - on our backs, feet first, knees bent and arms across our chests. It didn’t quite work out like that for one of us!

We both had to be dragged out of the river at the end of this because we missed the rock in the middle of the river that we were supposed to climb onto 😀. It didn’t really matter because we then had to jump straight back off the rock anyway.

Really tiring swimming across the river against the current. But also, really good fun.

Now back at the campsite having a well-deserved beer and sandwich.

(More photos coming we hope - but we couldn’t take our own phones with us because it was too rough, so relying on the photos taken by the organisers).Read more