Date: 23/08/2012
Location: Arahura River
Weather: Clear
Group: Ben Searle, Jacob Schrama and myself
Grade: 4
Duration: 2 hours
Flow: Very low
Incidents: Ben had a swim out of a sticky hole and had to swim the rest of the gorge
Decided to take Ben and Jake into the Cesspool gorge for the first time. After looking at the lines to make sure they were passable with the little water, we launched in. cave drop was a no go so we portaged and ran from there. The first section where the buffer is went smoothly with every one hitting there line perfect. The second part with the sticky hole went not so well. Ben entered the rapid slightly to far right and rolled on a rock entering the hole up side down with no speed. He was sucked back where he was worked for a good 40 seconds before swimming out. we took our time paddling down and left the boat for now. once through the rest of the grade four we managed to catch the boat and get Ben back in.
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