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2009-12 West Coast Heliboating
Awesome five days boating on the West Coast: Totara, Kakapotahi, Arahura, and multiday Upper Hokitika/Colliers Gorge trip staying at Rapid Creek hut and tramping up the Whitcombe the next day.
Seth on Totara, low flow
Jo Beth on Totara
'PE' on Totara
Waster on Totara
Bug on Upper Kakapotahi, awesome flow
Craig on Postman's fall on Kakapotahi
Letterbox
Bug on Letterbox
PE above Airmail
Bug on Tunnel rapid
Bug
PE
PE
Safety cover
Craig in the tunnel
Craig
Seth on the lower
Bug on lower
First rapid on Arahura
Craig and PE in the third gorge
Vaughan and Bug
Vaughan
Ken
Craig
Waster
PE exits the gorge
Bug
Vaughan
Ken
Bottom of Billiards
Second gorge rapids
Second gorge
Ken in First Gorge on Arahura
First gorge
Waster in First Gorge
Kerry on first rapid of Upper Hokitika
Piere
Gwyn
Bug
Gwyn
Kerry
Kerry on the big new rapid below where Viagra was
PE
Tom falling off the first gorge entrance fall
Bug
Gwyn
PE
Kerry lines up for the first must-run drop
Second gorge entrance
Kerry again
Bug below the big waterfall portage
Bug
Bug escaping the cave
Rapids deep in second gorge
Bug
Bug
Kerry
Exit of second gorge
Another new rapid below the second gorge
Old Bluff hut bridge
Kerry
Gwyn in the Lower, Kakariki canyon
Second heli-trip for price of 1
PE and the awesome trout he caught us!
Cooking over the Rapid Creek Hut stove
Leaving Rapid Creek hut the next day, heading off up Whitcombe
PE on the Colliers Gorge 'path' in the rain
Long walk in
Gwyn at the top of Colliers Gorge
Good high flow on Whitcombe
3rd heli-trip of the Whitcombe, plenty of carnage!
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