Wild and Wet Wednesday, usually words reserved for a street pole advert grabbing your attention while stuck in traffic to or from work . For me on this particular Wednesday , these words represented a day out on the equally tranquil and gnarly Nile . We launched just a few kilometres outside Jinja spending the day navigating 8 rapids and 21 kilometres of this spectacular river .
Don’t run
Stay seated in the crash position.
Our crew , The captain and navigator mad Matt with a genuine mullet , yes he had lost a bet , Henk and Family from just outside Amsterdam and the man from Toulouse who did not get my joke about Boeing , Oh and not forgetting Solo , Victoria had to sit this one out. The day starts off with instruction and a couple of drills and once that is over it is time to RAFT. You kick off on a level 5 and spend the rest of the day between 3 and level 4 rapids , with a whole lot of time upside down , inside out and being spun around . I had a blast and the great thing about the rafting is that you spend the whole day on the Nile either swimming alongside the boat , enjoying the beautiful countryside or getting machine washed , spun and dried . Our raft did seem to have a flipping disorder so we did spend most rapids sub surface.
What NOW !
The soak before the spin.
The highlight for me was when our raft found that sweet spot in the rapid and there we surfed on the spot the raft a boil under bum for about 20 seconds before being spat out and of course flipped . A day of turmoil and tranquillity and we only used a mere 21 Km of the mighty 6400 km length of the Nile.
Henk thanks so much for the footage , the ski helmet with camera was a fantastic idea.
So the day came to an end with a rain storm to rival the rapids and we set off for home some full of chatter others full of thoughts.
Thanks Adrift
Until we meet again.
