Up at 7.00 to head off to the mouth of the Rouge River - part of our fragmented 5 year trip from the Laurentians to Toronto. Going to go with New World Rafting for this trip, NOT suitable for canoes!
Quite a bit of faffing and then we were all put in a school bus, with a trailer full of bright yellow rafts astern, and taken about half an hour to the put in, to load these huge, not-very-floppy things into the water and start our descent with a crew of us, a young family from Washington DC and with links in Tremblant, and Terry (Turtle) our captain.
Mrs Grizzle looking confident first grade 2-3 completed!
In part, a great big yellow bag of air is going to get down a river on its own but in reality, it’s going to do it a lot better and with much less risk to the crew if the skipper knows what he is doing; and Terry really did.
Sometimes the dunkings were intentional, to the delighted shrieks of the kids, sometimes we took a smoother line when a dunking would have been dangerous.
This was really great fun; most of the photos are commercial (we were a bit busy) and that’s a bit more of the Rouge done. (Green line)
Yaay!
Home absolutely whacked and already aching some. But then, it has been a long day.
