Pretty wet and occasionally wild

Having overdone the walking, we thought we'd give our legs a rest and paddle down a river for three days. 87km down the Whanganui river, to be precise. Some grade 1 rapids and a couple of grade 1.5 (the scale goes up to 6 - so we weren't too worried..).
Predictably, the scenery was stunning. We spent most of the time too deep in a river canyon to worry about sunburn, although we could see the blue sky above.

As for the rapids... Pah. Of the three canoes in our group, ours was the only one not to capsize.
Come on! They gave us quite a soaking though, to be fair.

After a long day's caneoing, there's nothing like a cold beer. And if you don't like beer then you can't beat a plastic mug of wine.


And as for venison sausages for breakfast... Get in.