Rafting on the Buller

Well, I’ve spent too much time describing my pictures on Flickr that I don’t have much time left to update this (and I’ve run out of gold coins to feed into the machine!) Anyway, today I went rafting on the Buller River from Murchison. It was a great trip through class 3 & 4 rapids, and the guides were much more fun than the guides I’ve had in the US and on the Shotover River. We got to do things like floating through rapids (the smaller ones) on our backs, standing up on the boat and trying to balance while going through other small rapids, carrying the boat up banks so we could re-do rapids, and jumping off a 9-meter-high cliff into a deep pool in the river (which not everyone did, but I went for it and managed not to bellyflop!)

I bought a $20 disk of professional shots taken from the banks, which has some really great shots of the raft in rapids, but the CD-ROM on this computer appears to be broken. For now, you’ll have to be happy with the shots I took.