{"id":2252,"date":"2015-01-25T20:19:28","date_gmt":"2015-01-25T07:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deltaprime.net.nz\/whitewater\/?p=2252"},"modified":"2021-01-25T22:42:13","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T09:42:13","slug":"25th-january-2015-clarence-river-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deltaprime.net.nz\/whitewater\/?p=2252","title":{"rendered":"25th January 2015: Clarence River (Day 3)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Date:<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 25\/01\/15
\nRiver:<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 Clarence\u00a0River, North Canterbury, NZ
\nRiver Conditions:<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a02.5 Cumecs at Jollies (NIWA). Grade 2+(3), water clear.
\nWeather Conditions:<\/strong>\u00a0 Sunny & warm, with gusty\u00a0NE winds.
\nNumber on Trip:<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a04 rafts, 4 guides & 10 clients.
\nTime on River:<\/strong>\u00a0 9\u00a0hours.
\nDistance covered:<\/strong> 39km (110km travelled in total)
\nAltitude dropped:<\/strong> 177m (403m dropped in total)
\nComments:<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0We were on the river by 8:30 with Sam as captain, for another day of beautiful weather and impressive scenery, with the highlights being the frequent basaltic flows & dykes and the chalky mountains. We had a nice cool swim at morning tea and Jenny swapped with Maire for a place in our raft.<\/p>\n

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Another gorge beckons.<\/p><\/div>\n

There were lots of good wave trains & boulder gardens and we ended up chasing a group of cormorants downstream through a series of gorges as they insisted on flying ahead of us instead of just watching us float past.<\/p>\n

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Heading down a rapid.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The paddle raft runs a rapid.<\/p><\/div>\n

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More geology, rafts & rapids.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The Inland Kaikoura Range in the distance.<\/p><\/div>\n

Noticed a cloudy flow out of Fidget Stream as it joined the larger Clarence River. A strong head wind picked up in the afternoon, making paddling harder and the going slower and we were glad when we reached Pink camp (so named as the defoliant sprayed on the gorse etc had a pink dye added which turned the sprayers, who had camped here, a pink colour hence Pink camp) above Sawtooth Gorge.<\/p>\n

Pre-dinner snacks with our wine, included crayfish and we had roast chicken, cooked in large cast iron Dutch ovens,\u00a0for dinner. Another swim in the evening and then as the weather looked good, I decided not to use the fly sheet and camped under the stars. It was another beautiful clear night and the stargazing at 2am was superb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Date:\u00a0 \u00a0 25\/01\/15 River:\u00a0 \u00a0 Clarence\u00a0River, North Canterbury, NZ River Conditions:\u00a0 \u00a02.5 Cumecs at Jollies (NIWA). Grade 2+(3), water clear. Weather Conditions:\u00a0 Sunny & warm, with gusty\u00a0NE winds. Number on Trip:\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a04 rafts, 4 guides & 10 clients. Time on River:\u00a0 9\u00a0hours. Distance covered: 39km (110km travelled in total) Altitude dropped: 177m (403m dropped in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":204,"featured_media":2346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rafting","category-river"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deltaprime.net.nz\/whitewater\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deltaprime.net.nz\/whitewater\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deltaprime.net.nz\/whitewater\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deltaprime.net.nz\/whitewater\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/204"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deltaprime.net.nz\/whitewater\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2252"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/deltaprime.net.nz\/whitewater\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4073,"href":"https:\/\/deltaprime.net.nz\/whitewater\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252\/revisions\/4073"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deltaprime.net.nz\/whitewater\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deltaprime.net.nz\/whitewater\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deltaprime.net.nz\/whitewater\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deltaprime.net.nz\/whitewater\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}