River Boarding

Wednesday 5th March

Had a lie in today which was bliss. Well it would have been had there not been two 18 year old chavs in the room, high on god knows what, who accused me of stealing their phone. Not nice and made Jasmine and I feel quite uncomfortable about leaving our stuff in the dorm.

This afternoon was river boarding. I started to get a bit apprehensive on the way there when the guide checked that everyone was a confident swimmer and enquired which of us had used flippers before as the rapids were quite tough. After kitting ourselves out in full wetsuits, body boards and flippers we had a twenty minute training session in an eddy where they could assess how confident we were on our boards and maneuvering. They picked out one Swedish girl as someone they needed to keep an eye out for, but somehow thought I was going to be ok. Little did they know..

We headed out towards the first rapid and I was desperately trying to navigate myself and my board and keep up with the others. I kept falling off and going under but the real trouble happened when I approached the third rapid went in completely the wrong direction to the rest of the group (I still don't know how) went over some rocks on my knees and completely got swept under. Fortunately one of the guides saw me and dragged me out and to the front of the group where I held on to the lead guide for the rest of the rapids pathetic or what. In the calmer water I was fine though.

It was an incredible trip and I am still glad I did it but I am covered in bruises and am still aching days later! We also got to ride on jet skis, a huge slide that you boarded down into the river, swings and rock jumps which were great fun.