Hutt Valley Canoe Club

What may have been only 20 minutes felt like quite a lot longer than that, as I sat in my boat in a tiny eddy all by myself, holding onto a handful of fernlife sticking out from the gorge walls. Rising and falling with the surge of the boils around me, I had plenty of time to reflect on my present position. Hmmm...my third trip down the Hutt Gorge, and here I was in a short squirty kayak, with expert kayakers in creekers all around me....

It was a cold, rainy Wellington day, the Hutt gorge was up, but instead, 4 of us were keen to escape the Wellington “summer” and head up to beautiful Hawkes Bay in search of some summer sun and warm water.