At the Tully river we were given our life jackets, helmet, paddles and split into 6 people teams. We meet Rod our guide for the day, in the raft he told us some safety things and off we went. We were the first raft down, Rod has rafted these water for 8 years now. He's one of the best. Our raft had 2girls and 4 guys, plus Rod. We had the power and skill to go faster and into more challenging waters. Rod tricked us a few time and flipped the raft, filled it with water to cool us down. Then steered our raft under a waterfall but only got us lot wet, keeping himself dry. There was some banter amongst us all and we were throwing Rod in as he kept saying he had a water phobia. We got some great photo shots of us in the back of the raft with the front end sticking up out of the water as we went down a waterfall(only small fall).
We paddled down a small set of rapids and waited for the others to catch up. As we were sat there Rod said he needed to get closer to the rapids to help the other rafts(safety precaution). So he said to paddle hard and fast. We quickly got going and as we got to the rapids the front of the raft were Hannah and the other girl were, quickly flipped and sent the two girls flying into the water. The rest of held on for dear life, the raft settled and we dragged the girls back in, they were still wondering what had happened, with Rod laughing his head off. Hannah had a few sore spots on her leg, arm and chin. We think my paddle hit it on her way into the water. We had a brilliant day and we can't wait to do it again in NZ.
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