We found a lovely new piece of river, quite by accident. I though I'd try a different way to get to the pumphouse put-in on Riverbend, but ended up much further upstream in the Umwindswi, which turned out to be a very nice piece of river.
We portaged the first weir, then ran a slide and some gentle rapids, before hitting the long flat section of Riverbend. Shane, on his first river trip, really made it look easy. He rolled a couple of times and hung on for rescue on the occasions he couldn't roll. Margie had a few swims, but seemed to enjoy the day nevertheless. The take-out for the novices at Mukore was quite tricky so we decided to run the first section, which in hindsight may have been a mistake. Margie had a long hard swim, and we had to rope her back across, after Troy and I chased her boat all the way to Z-Bend (through some big stoppers).
The wave was working really well so Troy, Andy, Dave and I had a good surf, before and after lunch. Dave entertained us with yet another variation on the Z-Bend line, but he finished the day without a swim.
Photo's and videos coming soon.
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