#13 White Water Rafting

#13 White Water Rafting - Completed 13 February
On to the second task of the day - Rita and I picked up her husband Costa and headed out to Penrith for White Water Rafting. There is only one word to describe this task - AWESOME!!!! We decided to wear wetsuits due to the weather and expecting the water to be cold although it wasn’t but they are also handy as protective gear. The first trip round the rapids was pretty full on and a little scary as you don’t know what to expect.

On the second time round we got out of the boat to do this particular rapid where they hold the boat against the rapid in trying to tip it wahooooo this was fun - scary but fun - of course we came out. The funniest part was when we were I think third time around and I got thrown out, I swum back to the boat but couldn’t get lifted in, in the meantime another boat came up and I was squash between them. Hilarious! the current took me down a bit ahead of the boat and one of the staff thru out the rope for me to catch and get pulled into the side to get out. I managed to get to the edge but at the same time my boat was coming towards me, so they ended up running me over. God it was funny.

Poor Costa got thrown out the next time around and hit a few of the concrete parts and was a bit battered. Overall its quite an exhausting sport and once you get thrown out and get wet you get very weighed down (between the wetsuit and my sneakers being full of water I felt like I weighed a ton).

This task was up there with the Thrill Seeker I did a few weeks back totally worth doing - which the three of us have decided to do again!

29 down, 11 to go.