Paddlers: Iain, Earnie, Dom, Spud, Graham, Greg, Adi, Jack
With us all meeting at sheds at the relatively late time of
9am we all seemed to be fairly awake which meant we loaded the cars quickly and
were soon off to the Dee. We quickly made it to the Dee despite Dom missing the
junction for the petrol station (wouldn’t be a kayaking trip if Dom didn’t get
lost!). We unloaded the boats and got changed causing us to find Greg was the
early contender for dick of the day award as he bought a spraydeck that didn’t
fit his playboat.
Despite being at the Dee to paddle on water we decided to
start the day by attempting to paddle down the hill towards Horseshoe Falls
which pretty much failed for the majority of us. Once we got on the river we
did some ferry gliding which went well for everyone except for me as I managed
to tail squirt any time I got near an eddy. After a few more eventful eddies we
made it to serpents tail were some beer booties were earnt with Adi and Jack
swimming the first time we went down and Graham swimming the second time he
went down. After graham had emptied his boat we carried
on down to JJ’s.
When we got to JJ’s we attempted to have a surf in the hole which
wasn’t particularly successful for any of us. Graham was the first to enter the
hole which was going well for maybe 1 second until he decided it was much
better for his head to be in the water. After deciding water wasn’t the place
for his head he rolled up and while asking what he should do he went over again
and got flushed out the hole and rolled up. Having seen graham style the hole
so well for some odd reason Spud decided she didn’t want to try it but with a
bit of gentle encouragement/peer pressure from the rest of us Spud decided to
give it a go. Spud managed to stay on the wave for just a bit more than Graham
before she went over and ended up swimming in the hole before Earnie rescued
her.
After leaving JJ’s we only had Town Falls left which was
fairly uneventful except for some tail squirting by me. With Town Falls done we
got off and went in the search for beer needed for beer booties which Spud,
Graham and Adi drank the majority off while Jack’s shoe was more like a sieve
meaning most of his beer went on the floor and causing him not to drink much.
Thanks to Dom for organising the trip as well as driving one
car and Earnie driving the other.
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