Sailkent Gorge

The plan at Salkient Gorge was to raft down it have a mud bath and then some lunch, however when we go to the gorge the weather was pretty average sot he rafting got canned. And we settled for lunch a walk along the gorge. Lunch was ok rather expensive for what it was but that was to be expected as it was the only place to eat.

Once you reach the end of the wooden walk way you could hire plastic shoes and continue your walk up the gorge in the water.

After much blustering and bellowing but he boys about smashing it – it was the girls that stepped up to the challenge. Joelene & I found shoes to fit and set off on our adventure first our aim was just to see what was couldn’t be bee seen from the viewing platform and after that it was to see what around the next bend. We decide that this would be our last corner so up the rock we went on the other side there were no rocks to step down on so we decided to slide down and continue on in the water. As J had the camera I went first – and in I slid all the way up to my neck!!! From there the current moved me down a short set of rapids where I collected a number of scraps and bruises. After this misadventure we decided we had better head back as we had no idea of the time and out departure time was set for 5pm.

Travelling with the current was actually harder than travelling against it – more little rocks got into our stylish hire shoes and because you were moving in the direction of the current it felt much more like the current could sweep your feet out from under you with every step.



We finally made it back to the viewing platform – where Bridget was waiting for us and tapping her watch letting us know we were running late. With Bridget holding up our towels we stripped off out wet clothes and wrapped our towels around us and hurried back to the bus. Thankfully no one was particularly bothered by our late return and once we were in dry clothes Canar finally succeeded in herding everyone on to the bus.

Photos @ Kodak