March 6th: Saturday
Saturday morning we got up before dawn to drive up to Jinja to go rafting. Rachel wasn’t interested in going rafting again so we dropped her at Kingfisher and then went to the rafting place. We paid and then sighned our lives away and had breakfast. there were about 40 people rafting that morning. after a pep talk we went and got our life vests and helmets and then loaded into two trucks and drove down to our launching point on the Nile. Out group was all loaded into one raft and we started off. to start out we practiced falling out of the raft, climbing back in and reflipping the raft.
After several kilometers we began to encounter the first rapids. The support kayaks would go first along with the support raft and then the rest of us would follow one by one. The first time we flipped was at the 3rd rapid. We got stuck in the rapid and were whirled around for several second before we finally tipped. I managed to drag myself aboard the support raft. Many of the rapids as you approached you could see the raft ahead of you simply diseaper over the top. During one rapid we paddled into it and then swept down where we met a wall of water well over our raft. The second time we flipped over I managed to hang on to the saftey rope and road out the rapid with the raft.
Over all I got the worst sunburn of my entire life and had a pretty great day of it. That night we stayed at the cabins provided by the rafting company and stayed up late and talked with some people we had gone rafting with.
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