Over the weekend of Saturday, 16th April 2011, I headed to George's Junction - a popular camping spot on the Macleay River with family and friends. I was hoping to find some half decent rapids (both downstream and upstream of the camp spot) but without much gradient and low water, I was only able to find a few class I-II rapids joined with large stretches of flats in-between.
With the lack of 'quality whitewater', I decided to create a 'mudslide' which ended up to be the highlight of the adventure. I will head up again next year and venture further upstream (to steeper gradients) to see if I can find the 'goods'.
With a slightly boring Saturday afternoon upon me, I decided to create a custom self-held pole mount for the POV.HD - useful for certain activities such as cruising around on the skateboard. Within this, I decided to give the V.I.O POV.HD camera a good testing in 720p @ 60fps (pure slow-mo).
More to come soon...
I have been approached by the Big4 caravan park in Nambucca Heads to develop a new website and content management system. This will definitely be an interesting project as I will need to utilise the Facebook API to display both the latest news feed and the photo galleries on the website.
This website is now live.
On Sunday 13th March 2011 after some decent rainfall in the area we decided to run the Nymboida River from Platypus Flats to Cod Hole. This stretch of river is approximately 9km and contains many class III rapids with a few class IV-V rapids. The level reading on the day at Platypus Flats read at 0.85m and after the usual shuttle setup and gearing up, the five of us put on the river at approximately 11am.
We ran the majority of the rapids except for Rock Bar (a class V rapid with a dangerous undercut) and D1 (Devil's) due to it being too high to safely run center chute and too low to run the river left chute.
Unfortunately, I missed the line on Broken Elbow (was too far right) and got munched in the hole. I had issues rolling due to the aerated water and therefore ended with a swim. Fortunately I was able to make a small eddy river right and not swim the rocky second section/drop of the Elbow which would have been a painful experience.
All in end, it was a great day and I cannot wait to get back on the river. Stay tuned!
