Back on the water

A mellow couple of days were spent at NRE following the incident. There was a nice memorial for Marc on the river bank on Wednesday evening, (his body was recovered and has been sent home) lots of people turned up to pay their respects, Marc had met a number of people out here and even those who hadn't met him came along to support their fellow paddlers. I will pass on all of your kind comments to Marc's friends.

We were all affected by what happened and it was hard to get back on the water again, especially to paddle past where he went under the water. I needed to paddle again though to get my confidence back up and to remotivate myself to go boating, so yesterday we did a few runs down left and right lines of Bujagali and down to Silverback, it was good fun, and still some big water even in the low water levels.

We ran the day 2 section on Wednesday, although the water is low there are still some great playwaves around but nothing very easy to set up on or learn moves on. It was good to do a section of river away from Buj though. Nile special was still handing out the occasional big move (generally one move and off), but it involved getting out of the boat and walking back up to the top to try again. Some of the Canadian paddlers have set up a tow-rope system so you can surf onto the Nile Special from the eddy, I haven't tried it out yet but I hear it is working quite well.

I'm off to the Lemon for a few days for some sunshine and surfing. Laters.