Kayaking

Last week I went with another swiss girl kayaking. I met her once at my rotary counselors house. Anyways, She asked me if I wanna go with her and 2 other people for kayaking on Arthur river. I certainly said yes and we already went on friday evening and camped at the river. We made a camp fire and we enjoyed the evening at the river. On saturday morning we got up early and went on the river. I never really kayaked before, I just kayaked on the duck river in Smithton and this river is very calm. At beginning I had a bit of trouble to steer the kayak but with the time I got it. Nathalie (The other swiss girl) had trouble at beginning as well. The river was black and it flowed trough the forest. On the way we went trough some rapids which were a lot of fun. Sometimes they had more water and sometimes less water. Because of the less water you got stuck on the rocks sometimes. Once there was a really big rapids and after that we all fell into the water! We made two stops on the way and made twice a fire for heating us up. We had four boats and just 3 paddles. One person just took a shovel. But after the big rapids, one of the other person lost his paddle so we took mine paddle apart. But after I fell into the water again after a rapids I lost mine paddle as well. So we haven't had enough paddles and then they just tied my kayak to another one with a rope. It was a bit scary but alright. We were 8 hours on our way and you can't believe how sore my arms were at the end. They other two fellas said to us we were very brave that we have done the whole way without complaining because they also had once two girls with them who began to cry. It was heaps of fun and I would do it again. After that I drove home with Nathalie in the car and it was so much fun because we listened some old German/Swiss music! I definitely talked to much Swiss German trough the day because at the evening I began to talk at first in Swiss German oops... Hahaha!