In message , chapelle
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sounds like pretty normal to me - swimming from a raft isn't all that
much fun - i've had my share of swims in the last year (not when I was
captaining the raft - I won't say guiding as I'm not an official guide).
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Old Donald RIP used to say often after another particularly horrendous
swim that I had watched "Gosh that was exciting ! sometimes I think that
swimming the rapids is more exciting than paddling them you should try
it Dave!"

I declined as often as I could!
--
Dave Manby
Details of the Coruh river and my book "Many Rivers To Run" at
http://www.dmanby.demon.co.uk