Saturday, January 12, 2008

VAAL @ 120 (9Jan)

When the Vaal goes to 120, you can't pass up the opportunity to get down there as soon as possible! Luckily, Nicklouse and Dwane the Dog were super keen and Dwane's girlfriend, Stacey, and their friends Damian and Kieran came too and it was festiveness all round.

Jhb was wet and miserable when we left and Parys was much the same when we arrived, fortunately the weather came to the party and the sun shone and the overhead freshness (that which we do not name!) was favourable. In fact so favourable that on the flats, between the freshness and the current, we never even paddled, just strapped the boats together and floated down.
Nick & Don trying hard not to do much on the float-down...

Big Daddy was good times, thanks Nick for making none of the eddies on the left so we didn't have a rope. Thanks Don for making the second one to cover our asses.










Nick in action... Don in action...






We did make a stop so that the boys could hop of the bridge
going to the new golf course with the ugly ass fountain at the entrance - not that ugly ass fountains are uncommon in Parys!





The rest of the day was normal festiveness... lunch at Paradise, pity the hole was washed out. But the hole at Theatre made up for it, nice!! Gatsien was good times, but moving rather quickly so was a schlep back up river... especially for those who thought a swim was necessary.




Good times... thanks all!