Thursday, July 19, 2007

Wanganui and Lower Kaka's

Howie and Isaac Wilson are lucky enough to have there folks living on the banks of the Wanganui River. Location is everything! Just a short walk up the river is where the goodtimes are located. Proving winter has been pretty sweet for some!

Monday, July 09, 2007

48 Hour Film making

Nevis and i ended up helping out on this fantastic short film!

The Feltastic Four!

It was one of the finalists here in Dunedin for this years Competition

Enjoy

Winter Boating!

Well who would have guessed?

The Lee Stream has seen a couple of descents this last week!
We have been probing the lower end of doable, One inch below and a couple inches below the gauge!
and a little bit bumpy in places, still all good to go!

Hoping to get in to the first rapid/portage, "Gated Community" and hack up the witches finger log and clear the woody seive at the exit of the pool, so we can bomb that first section till "Head High Tackle" a definite portage. and the shortened "Depravity" portage, nice

have put together some of the footage from the two trips, it will be available soon hopfully here, just need to compress it!

all your fav rapids! (mine actually, soon to be yours!)

pinball
headbangers
balooga falls
pencil dick falls
slide
no free lunch
rimshot

all documented



hoping to get some other folks down this classic so we can indeed be peer reviewed on our find!

It took five hours on Monday and Thursday three hours fifty minutes!!!!
I'm sure after some more rain that will be stretched out again!

The drought is over on the Taieri,

Its been quiet times of late here in Dunedin!

the Taieri River has been empty!
Hell its only 9.5 cumecs in there in these photos, lucky as you have to go under the wood!

In the brief moment of of flooding, two large trees were thrown down on the Pipeline rapid, top and bottom.


Nice work.

Certainly hoping the working bee this sunday with the wildearth adventures crew will get the colander situation sorted!
Should we be messing with the habitat?
Just for recreation?
Good to ask questions, and see what you can come up with to support your stance?!