Back home to the Nile for the Winter back to warm weather, sick waves and some of the last moments paddling on the Silverback section before the Dam cuts it off :-(

Dam is coming on fast with lots of work been done in the last 6 months. The water is still quite low with Nile special running in the evening and Club in the morning. Highlight of the news around here is one young Hippo is currently living in the top section after being separated from its herd. It has been moving down eddy to eddy from the dam and was last seen in the eddy next to Horseback safaris (eddy around the backchannels) although I’ve not yet seen it whilst i’ve been videoing but keep looking out for it.

Along with myself  & Katya, Jon Best has come out to raft for the winter and Deuce from Canada and Julian from Switzerland are also here for a few months so there’s a good little paddling crew kicking around already!

Good to be back. We got here two weeks ago and have been getting set up again, bought a bodaboda (small motorbike) to get around on and have been getting back into Video-boating and sessioning Nile Special in my time off, whilst Katya’s just started to learn to ride our bike so she can get to Nile Special when I’m working.

Below is a some photos from the last few days boating & soon I’ll put together a little video and upload it so you can see how much you really should head out here before the dam comes in :-)

Pring