Adrian Tregoning

Peak UK As River Festival July 2009

Since Adrian couldn’t make it up to the Highveld for the Peak UK As River Festival, I (Luke Longridge) volunteered to write this guest article, since I was lucky enough to go.

First Gatsien Session of the Season!

The word had been out on the Whitewater Tangent for weeks, and the Sunday was finally upon us: the first water release on the Vaal for the summer. The canoeists were having a race, along the section above Parys, and had managed to convince the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry (DWAF) to release about 80 cumecs of water. I’m not sure how the canoeists always manage to get these water releases organised, but they do. Maybe it’s because there are a lot more of them around? If it was up to me we would have a water release every Sunday.