Lynn Creek

The night was much better than expected. I actually slept very well. Probably because it stopped blowing overnight.
But the weather is not good today. It's really cloudy and it looks like it gonna start to rain pretty soon. And it's cold today 😬
I had a fast breakfast and then I hit the road to Peel Forest. My plan was to do a short track there before I go on the rafting trip.
Unfortunately, it's started to rain shortly before I left the campground and never stopped again, it actually was worst when I reached Peel Forest so I was in the end only doing the 10 min walk to the big tree there but not more. It's too wet and too cold for it and as I gonna get really wet later on, I don't need this now as well.
I had a quick lunch at the carpark and then I went drove the last kilometers to the rafting camp.

At least the weather is not going to destroy my rafting trip today, as I gonna get really wet anyway.
I signed in and we had to wait for the last people to show up and then it was already time for the first instructions. After that we got all our equipment and started to get dressed up, looking funny as always in this stuff. 😂

Then we jumped on the bus for a short ride to the river.
There we got split up into two groups.
I was in Team James, with a couple from Hamburg, a guy from New York, an Aussie and a Kiwi.
We have two trainees with today as they should get to know the river better so they can guide their own boats down there soon and we even have a safety kayaker with us, as we gonna hit some real rapids today, it’s a Grade 5 river so I am expecting a lot of fun! 🤩🤗

The first part of the river is really calm and easy floating water, more than enough time for everyone to get used to everything and learn all the commands that are important today.

We then started with a Grade 1 rapid, easy-going! The next one was a Grade 2 rapid, also this one nothing special, but a nice warm-up for the real stuff! 😉

The next one was a Grade 3 rapid and that one almost flipped us over 😳🙈 As you can see in the second picture, we were all falling to the left side but luckily got right up again before it was too late.

As I got to sit in the front, I was already completely wet at that point, as usual 😂
Watertemperater is not to bad with 10 degrees, I had worst than that 😉

After that, we stopped and the two guides took a walk to the next rapid to check it out as it is a Grade 5 rapid.
First the safety kayaker Ryan went down, then the two trainees with their raft, then the other group and we went as last.

This rapid is only 70 meters long, but you can get a lot of problems in there if you hit it wrong.
We got a perfect ankle as we all were working really good as a team and the result was a perfect red through the rapid, though it's a tough one!

Everyone stayed in the boat and the adrenalin was high now, more than ready for the next Grade 5 rapid!!Read more