Thursday, 8 January 2015

Rescue time!

Once back in fishling we had kind of two days before we were to meet up with the multi river guys. This gave chance for more kayaking - mostly playing on the wave for paddy and some more rolling practise for myself. There were a few kids that had been trying to kayak and trying to roll but failing and no one was there to help coach them. At least they were trying close to the side and in mostly shallow water. 

The day we were to go to kathmandu in the morning however I went down to the river and got in my boat to warm up and there was someone sat on the other side of the bank. It turned out it was one of the kids from the day before and he had paddled upstream flipped, bailed out the boat and lost both the boat and the paddle and was stuck on the other side of the river. He had tried to swim across apparently but had been unsuccessful. So I went to rescue him when I got closer he just said "help me!" Which I was impressed at as he at least attempted to speak English to me! So after a rescue mission it was time to carry on with practise time. 

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