Well after a client loosing a camera yesterday, Will and I went for a rescue mission today in a canoe to try and find the camera at the bottom of the river. After 2 hours  of snorkelling we gave up on the camera and continued down in the battered canoe. 

At the Steps we flooded and I took my first swim in 7 years which after swimming and towing the canoe the side we got in just above the Chute (250m of swimming)  We got the boat out  but the wooden gunnels were smashed up hull cracked in three places seats which were rotted were now broken completely. 

Wills prospective: 
we were having a lovely paddle along the river, watching Caribou running by... until we took the meaty line down the rapids, got swamped... Its done man, lets go! As I float out of the canoe I turn to see Chris still in the back with just his head above the water trying to paddle " I will go down with this boat". I was laughing all the way down the rapid and when I saw the state of the canoe what could I do but laugh???


We portaged the Chute and managed to paddle our broken canoe 5km back home...  a few pictures of the trip 

Well we haven't been deported and the bosses actually found it hilarious and Joy showed us a picture of her and Paul using the same canoe to paddle away on their wedding day that made us feel bad until they gave us more rum...

Well this year is flying by it seems like only yesterday I was stepping off the Plane at Heathrow just before Christmas thinking it was cold after spending several months in Nepal. It has been a busy but fun year with courses ran throughout the UK, and now I find myself with only a few weeks left in Newfoundland still busy as ever!