Easter and the raft

Putting the raft together


Gwilym and Brent testing it out

A rafting we will go!!!

Pulling the raft apart

Gwilym and Brent with their raft

Ok so we have gone back in time, but oh well they were kool photos. I went down to Rosebud with my brother, Gwilym, and his then fiance Bec, (they got married the next weekend), to help organise the wedding that was taking place.

We spent most of the 4 days getting things ready and getting organised but took some time out to try out a raft that Gwilym and Bec's brother Brent had built. Their aim is to raft it down the Murry, but it needed to be tested first.

It weights an absolute tonne, and can literally carry a tonne, but somehow we managed to carry the 2 halves from the trailer, down the beach to the edge of the water (it is too large to carry on a trailer in one piece, and would be too heavy to carry in one piece anyway!). It was then screwed together, and tested out.

On the up side, the raft is never going to sink, no matter what is put on it, but was basically unmovable in the water-it was just way too heavy. As the only place we could then get the raft out of the water was 1.5km away, and as you could walk down the beach faster, Gwilym and Brent proceeded to push it instead. Regardless it took us a good hour and a bit to get to the end point-the result.....it needs some work.

Overall though, a lot of good fun