Black River .. My rafting experience !!!!












Today we went for a 5 hr violent ride on rapids of Black River. It had about 14 level 3-4 rapids. And believe me in 2 or 3 of those ... people had their hearts in mouth.

The best of all was a rapid named "cruncher". It was like 3 rapids clubbed together. Towards the end were two big rocks ( facing each other ) and two small rocks ( well inside the water ) were on there left and right of the big ones ( like the corners of a sq ). The big rocks formed two mounds of water and the small rocks caused turbulent tides. And the effect all these 4 rocks had was of a huge natural juggler.

Before we went into this " juggler " our guides told us about the hazards of this rapid, so just in case anybody wanted to back out that was the best time to raise the white flag.

We were in total 9 people. 5 were in one raft and 4 were in the other. We were supposed to go upstream into that "juggler". Both the teams couldnt do it @ first, so all hopped into one raft and moved in.

And here came the moment. We were counting our peddle strokes " 1 2 3" " 1 2 3". When we started the third round our 1 2 3z .. people started falling out, one by one.. 5 of them went down.
The guide told us not to swim in that juggler if we happen to fall get caught in it , because it was like a whirlpool, you would move in circles and the swim strokes wouldnt do any good. So we were asked to roll up in a ball and hope the water would spit us out. In the worst case scenario (if we couldnt get out of the spin ) our only hope was a rope.

4 of us we in the boat the whole time. And the raft was like a ball in hands of that rapid. It kept spinning, tossing , flipping us in every possible direction it could.

Finally after 4-5 minutes in the "juggler" we were thrown out of the rapid (not the raft ).

Then we all came down a 12 ft fall rapid and we were done with out tour of 14 rapids.


It was a fun, thrilling , "egg"citing , adrenalin pumping ride.


My next adventure and a long awaited one as well is a " sky dive ". I guess that would be in September. 2 months to save some money, 2 months to have the drive of a lifetime and 2 months to have a 10 sec tour of "heaven".