November play

So the Vaal marathon gave us the choice between doing a two day canoe race and playing at Gatsien. It is obivous from the title which was chosen. The second day for the canoe race was supposed to have a dam release of 105cumecs from the barrage.
Daav and I headed down on Saturday in the hope than the water would be up from the rain... it wasn't not even a little bit. I fact it was the lowest I have seen it all year, so we headed to rocky ridge and paddled up to the wave at Paradise. The wave was as good as ever, if by any means it is ever good.

Sunday morning saw significantly more water flowing past the camp, we packed up and headed down to Gatsien. When we got there the level was around 60, around where the wave starts to get nice. It steadily increased in level with the every increasing number of people, at mid day it was about 80cumecs. Chris met us there after taking the long way round to get there.

I have put chris' photos up here