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Hello everyone!
Today we woke to the boys noisily swatting
flies. Breakfast was served at the hotel,
and then we departed for our river trip on
the Inn river.
We had organised to do the trip with the experienced
river running New Zealanders, to take advantage
of awesome Mike Dawson. However they got lost
and we ended up having to wait an hour before
we finally set off.
The water was milky white and very cold. Since
it had rained last night and snow was melting,
it was in flood. There were huge wave trains
and some munchy holes and stoppers. When jumping
over the peaks of the waves you would sometimes
find yourself 3 metres high and then come
crashing down in the trough of the next wave.
As the river was in flood there were very
few rocks, and it wasn't too technical. However
I managed to find one of the few rocks close
enough to the surface to cause any trouble.
I ran over it and broke my boat.
We had rolls for lunch, and all bummed around
for ages. Jake Lee from Foster came down and
said hello. He is living in Austria for a
year on a youth exchange programme.
Joey got a dirty mullet, and now looks like
a rat.
At 5:00 in the afternoon we did a flat-water
session on the Piburger See (lake) up on the
top of the mountain. It is so beautiful; actually
this whole area is stunning. As the boys wrote
the entry yesterday they probably forgot to
write about our amazing surroundings. We are
staying in this little village, nestled between
huge mountains. There are pine forests all
around, and green fields.
For dinner we cooked dinner ourselves. We
had tomato pasta, with Tash's mash, veggies
and steak - followed by mousse. Yummy
Ethan was dared to drink olive oil for 5 euro.
He failed as his gag reflexes kicked in and
he spat it all over the garden.
Ben got a dirty rat's tail, and now joins
Joey in the rat gang.
In the morning we plan to do a session on
the slalom rapid! IT IS HUGE. You can hear
the river roar from our accommodation. We
all are very scared and hope we make it through
to write another diary entry.
Goodnight everyone!
'MORGANNN!!' -from the boys
by Antra
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