White Water Rafting

Sorry for the news blackout, but there was no cell coverage up the Tully Gorge.
We got there last night about 8pm, just after Orion, and just after the first two trucks of gear.

Orion had also beaten the trucks, so had put up their tent and were sleeping down the back of the camping ground. They'd made the good decision to get as much sleep as they could, and pack their bikes up in the morning.

Blackheart had smashed the mountain bike, joining up with Central Bike Depot, McCain and alpineepic.co.nz along the way, and all four arrived at the TA 10 minutes behind Orion.

Then another hour back to SCAR, Osprey, securify.co.nz, Nga Rakau and Mawson. Osprey and securify caught Nga Rakau about 3km from the end of the bike, when Isak punctured. Tim looked to be improving from very seedy to only slightly seedy.

Nga Rakau and Osprey then made what we thought was a good decision to continue on and do the 10km trek to the start of the rafting, and sleep up there. Most of the teams slept at the camping ground, then got up early to walk to the start.

The grade 4 WW rafting was fabulous, we know because we had ! to go in the last boat to make up a boat to pair up with the last team (they were going down in twos).

Only casualty of the WW was Rachel from Osprey, she smacked her nose during a big bounce through the first rapid, just a small cut across the bridge of her nose, not serious but copious amounts of blood. Sonja's going to stitch it up at the next TA.