Zambezi Swim Team

After visiting Victoria falls at low water and watching with envy the rafters far below getting ready we decided to splash out and book the full days rafting down the Zambezi. The falls were so low you could walk all the way from the Zambia side, across the top on the falls side to Livingstone Island at the border with Zim.

Sequence 1. Our first rapid and one man down! All Alex could do was laugh and hold on (front right)






Sequence 2. One of our many flips. We were unlucky to hit the big wall, apparently we missed the window to pass through (we were told at the time tthat we had a 50/50 chance of making it, but after the event the other guides corrected the odds to 90/10 against!). We ended up doing a lot of swimming / floating down rapids and earned the title swim team! Our brilliant guide picked some of the more adventurous lines. See if you can spot us gasping for breath....(Alex second from back, Amms far side)










We could not resist buying the photo CD and video, here is a snapshot. There were four rafts in total, 8 flips during the day (We flipped 4 times in total in 25 rapids, mainly on the class 5's) and there were only a few bruises to show for it....Apparently the Zambezi is one of the few forgiving rivers where you can flip and live to tell the tale as there are few rocks near the surface.