The 1st ’successful’ Descent of Dante’s Drop, Elands River, SA

Foreword: 1st Descents are scary enough, right? However, sometimes the first run of a rapid or waterfall can expose the feature as rather friendly. It’s when a 1st Decent goes wrong, and you’re the one who’d like to make the 2nd Descent, that you really worry. Luckily for me, I thought “Dante’s Drop” had never been [...]

Covering SA for some epic Winter paddling

As most South African kayakers will know winter paddling in this country is scarce, just about the only region in South Africa that gets winter rainfall is the Western Cape. Apart from that the only river that has guaranteed water is the Ash near Clarens. It seemed the best thing to do was to pack [...]

Snow Kayaking

Over the last few weeks I’ve been doing a whole lot of fun things, but very little water kayaking. I took my girlfriend out to a hunting farm with some friends from Italy. Go to http://www.lalapasafaris.co.za/index.html to read about this game farm.
After the hunting I was invited to my uncle’s 50th birthday party in Kokstad. [...]