South Island Gallery / Whitewater / 2012-11 Ngakawau and Oparara   The Oparara at an awesome flow, and the Ngakawau. The Oparara is one of NZ's best rivers!! Photos by Kerry and me.  01 Tom on the Oparara, near Karamea    02 A few tree-choked rapids in the limestone section    04    05    09 Awesome limestone gorges, manky rapids though    10    11 Oparara portaging    12 Awesome rapids once the limestone ends near Fenian creek    13    14    15 Best rapid on the river, choice of awesome clean lines    16    17    NZ manky rapids on the Ngakawau    IMGP0672    Kerry on the walk-in    This is quite a high flow    Mangatini Falls--the beginners all asked why Kerry didn't run it    IMGP0679    IMGP0680    IMGP0681    IMGP0682    IMGP0684    The bottom km is tidal, but you can walk up 15 mins and gauge the flow here--brown=quite high    next day on the Oparara, amazing limestone arch    Limestone rapids are very manky though, quite lot of walking in the first 6km    Eventually the rapids turn to granite    More limestone    The lower has 3km of continuous 4-5, awesome paddling, big holes, clean lines--this is one of the best rapids   29 Images  |  Home  |  Generated by jAlbum 9 and based on Chamelion skin