1. advent at the blackwood river

Posted on November 28th, 2005 by tobi in Australia

The last weekend I went on a paddle trip to the blackwood river in the south of west australia. A guy from the Outdoor Club organized the trip. We started our trip at Sue’s bridge, a small camping site next to the river. After having a nice BBQ, fighting against possums and spending the night in tents we headed off the next morning: 6 orange kajaks, a kanu and one beautiful river! I shared my boat with a guy from Zimbabwe named Tristan, what gave us the kajak name T’n'T The wheater was nice and sunny so actually a good reason to overturn the kajak and have a litte swim in the river. But unfortunately we carried all our gear and backpacks in the boat – even packed in lots of platicsbags I didn’t wanted them to fall into the water. Sometimes some rapids blocked our way, but no problem for T’n'T – we managed all of them and stayed nearly try! Real fun!
Our trip ended on sunday afternoon when we reached the next camping site. As some groupmembers had to work on monday they left quickly whereas the rest of us stayed for another night. Sunday was the 1. advent! Really unbeliveable! Of course we hadn’t no advent wreath, so we lighted a big campfire instead. Strange!?
On monday moring, after leaving the camping site quite late, we planed to visited a cave, but as it was too expensive we headed to the beach instead. There it was very nice and impressive waves, but unfotunately the sun kept hideing behind the clouds – so no real chance for swimming! Some of us tried to go kanu surfing and struggled with the unmanagable waves, others tried to catch some fishes. But again, as the day before, they were unsuccessful. The best part were some dolphins and wales in the end. Quite far away, but still good to see. Awesome! After a 3 hour drive I finally arrived back in Perth.

Here a nice picture of the river:

One Response to “1. advent at the blackwood river”

Tobi, on November 14th, 2006 at 8:59 pm Said:

Dad @ 30.11.2005 21:15 WST
Hi Tobias,
your pics are great. And your aerial picture gives a pretty good overview of the river you canoed on. Did it remind you on our trips?
Lots of greetings from Germany. The xmas markets are open now and we are having a hot Glühwein once in a while. How does this sound to you in warming up Australia??
DAD

Dad @ 30.11.2005 21:15 WST
Hi Tobias,
your pics are great. And your aerial picture gives a pretty good overview of the river you canoed on. Did it remind you on our trips?
Lots of greetings from Germany. The xmas markets are open now and we are having a hot Glühwein once in a while. How does this sound to you in warming up Australia??
DAD

Dominik & Jenni @ 04.12.2005 23:53 WST
Hi !!!
Wow, super tolle neue Bilder und dann auch noch kanu fahren… echt toll und zur Zeit kannst du den papa wirklich nicht verleugnen… You looks like our daddy in the Walachei !!!
Aber das hat bestimmt dem T’n'T Boot nur gutes gebracht.
Nachdem wir nun wieder einmal deine neusten Abenteuer-Storys gelesen haben, überkommt uns eine Klitzekleine aber entscheidene frage: Arbeitest du auch was???
Aber egal wir wünschen dir weiterhin viel fun und viel neue Bilder von dir für uns
Liebe grüße
deine Jenni und Dominik

Jenni & Dominik @ 05.12.2005 20:42 WST
Na, wurdest du vom meteorid getroffen? Ging gestern durch die Schlagzeilen berichte mal…
hab dich lieb viele Grüße jenni und Dominik

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