Coaster's

The weather forcast for this past weekend was a kayaker's dream. 300mm of rain was to hit the west coast and it landed on a weekend! We rallied over on Friday night got to Hoki, had some cheeky beers, then went to camp out by a river. it rain off and no all night and we awoke to more rain and wind. The Styx we low but hopefully on the rise. We drove around a bit looking at other rivers. in the end we hike up the Styx and found quite the adventure...

On the hike in. The rain seem to be on off on off all day. When it was on it was really on and came down hard. This pattern made it hard to pick what run would be in and be at a good level. we ended up maybe not making the choice and got to the top of the run to find it in a ranging flood...

The Styx with just a tad to much water in it

looking down into the unknown, we put on somewhere in this picture just below the steepest section. All went well with the occasional hole ride and moment of elevated excitement.

What good came out of the Styx being it flood was that it made it a good level to fly up to the upper put-in the next morning. The run was held to be a great day out we all were ecstatic when we woke up to clear blue skies Sunday morning...

What dreams are made of. We called Bruce first thing once in Hoki, went and got some food, and headed to the river.

Johno and Ben gearing up on a perfect west coast day

Looks good from up here. Bruce flying low so we could get a look at the days challenges

Ben and Johno getting ready to rock.

Johno getting into it right off the bat

Ben lining up the next move. The level was a tad low, all the rocks helped scrape the rust off our somewhat out of form paddling

Jonho taking a look see at the big one

The rare picture of me, thanks to Alex, somewhere along the way.

I'm on break now and leave tomorrow for an adventure down in Fiordland. should be a good time and I'll be back in two weeks time...