After a relatively easy bus journey down, we are now here on the river. “We” is myself, Maryke (our cook at Lower), Terry and Donna (manager and cook at Middle), Ollie (manager at Kitza) and Glenn, our brilliant mechanic.
Unloading supplies at Sobacci Rapids |
They told us that the river had begun to break on the 28th April and that it took three or four days to fully clear out which is as we would expect. Apparently they had much more snow than usual during the winter and beyond the tree line there is a lot of snow still waiting to melt.
Boats in the water and ready to go |
The river is relatively low for this time of the year but we all know that predicting weather patterns, rainfall and almost anything else up here is a fool’s errand so we will see how it all unfolds.
Glenn, Misha and Nikolai sorting through the supplies |
I will keep you updated throughout the week and I might even manage a cheeky cast today – it looks perfect.
Bill Drury