A word from our man in Africa.
From a cold, wet, dark November to an action packed hot December back on the Nile.The water level is pretty low at the moment but that’s not such a bad thing as different waves and rapids appear and disappear as the day goes on. Club wave works in the morning from about 7am till 1pm.
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Club is a large piley wave, pretty consistent but as the day goes on it becomes more and more trashy and surgey, until it hits about 1pm then it’s not worth paddling. There’s a gap of about 3 to 4 hours where neither Club or Nile Special work properly, and then at around 4 pm Nile Special kicks in, a large peaking wave with a pile. When Nile Special kicks up you get an awesome steep green wave where any big wave move is possible. The Gui-Gui Prod is an incredible boat the air you can generate is substantially more than any other boat on the river, landing a big move flat is violent and your back defiantly knows about it…but its so worth it.
I’m seeing the river from a different perspective this time round as I am working as a raft guide, so it’s not just my self I have to navigate safely down its also 6 or 7 others as well. Big white water, sun, pineapple, flips and broken bones are the order of the day on the river and none of that gets boring. The money I earn from rafting pays off my tab at NRE so its happy days.
Life off the water consists of mainly eating, drinking, socialising and trips back and forth to town to buy a new pair of sunny that broke on the river the day before.
Photo by Julian Stocker.
For this and other exciting stories from the life and times of Jon Best have a gander at http://www.jonbest.blogspot.com/
posted by Pete @ 1:37 AM
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