Daav and I headed up to the Blyde river in Limpopo last weekend. The original plan was to paddle with Hugh, which didn't happen. Instead we crashed at Chris Huddle's place and bumed along on a Blyde river adventures commercial trip.
The drive into the canyon is a long one but well worth it. The scenery and river is awesome, a cool clear river flow though the third largest canyon in the world. But the rapids make it even better. The run starts of fairly easy with a few smallish drops and bony rapids. I made a meal of Island rapid by getting broached half way down, but I sorted it out with a little shoulder contact on the many rocks below.
After the lunch stop about 6km down the river starts to get really good, with lots of low volume drops and steep rapids.
Just as it starts to get late you meet up with the dam and catch a ferry across what would be a long hall into a head wind.
Good times, awesome river and looking forward to the Blyde fest.
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