Kayak-Polytech

Date: Tues 15th-Fri 18th March
Location: Lake

Kayaking- Personal

Date: Sunday 23rd September
Location: Crooked
Weather: Warm and Sunny
Grade: 2
Group Members: Myself, Tui, Gretchen, Luke, Watson
Accidents/Incidents: None

Awesome, cruisy day down the crooked. Played in all the waves and caught as many eddies as we could to get the most out of the day. The flow was pretty low so we decided not to walk up to the grade 3 put in but still not a bad flow to play in waves etc. As Luke ran the shuttle we stayed in the river practising back deck and rodeo rolls. Didn't quite manage to nail it but it's my goal to try get one.

Kayaking-Personal

Date: Saturday 22nd September
Location: Arahura
Weather: Warm and Sunny
Grade: 3
Group Members: Myself, Gretchen, Eckies, Jake, Dan, Harvey, Sara, Martijn, Watson, Ru, Lenny, Tui
Accidents/Incidents: One swim from Eckies

Nice day for a walk up the Arahura. Big crew but we managed that by splitting into two groups so we wern't so clustered. Martijn and Jake went up further to run Cespit. We met them at the grade 3 put in and headed down. Not too far into it Eckies had a swim but no problems cleaning that up. Headed on down catching heaps of eddies and trying to milk it. Sweeet day!

Raft-Tech

Date: 18th-20th September
Location: Arnold, Upper Grey River
Weather: Fine
Group members: Tech raft students
Grades: 2-3
Accidents/Incidents: 4 broken paddles

Fun 2 days on the Arnold guiding and doing rescue scenario's such as tethered raft, throw bagging, z-drags and pig-rigs. The last day we went to the Upper Grey river to get some grade 3 guiding in.

Raft-Personal

Date: Sunday 17th September
Location: Crooked River
Duration: 2.5hrs
Weather: Fine
Group Members: Tui Kraal, Gretchen Dalzell, Luke Wilson, Myself
Flow: Low
Accidents/Incidents: None

Fun run down the Crooked practising our guiding skills and rescue skills for assessments. Started with doing some tethered rafts, some systems, flipped raft and just a good time guiding the Crooked which i haven't rafted before. Nice weather for it too!

Raft & Kayak-Personal

Date: Saturday 8th September
Location: Arnold
Duration: 1 day
Weather: Thunder, heavy rain
Group Members: Myself, Ellis Slee, James Sadler, Gretchen Dalzell, Luke Wilson
Flow: 100cumecs
Accidents/Incidents: None

Sweet trip down the Arnold to give my sister her first experience of rafting. Weather wasn't too great. had to wait for a while in the morning to leave as it was thunder and lightening. Headed there after a while but it was still raining and the odd thunder. Made it more fun though. After the trip down we did another rather quick trip down in the kayaks. Fun day!