White Water Rafting on the Rio Trancura...Pucon, Chile
So yesterday I took Andrew on his first white water rafting trip! :D What a hoot...
They unloaded us from the tourist bus and started handing out wetsuits, shorts, life jackets, and water booties. Before we knew what was happening we all started to look like some vague form of super hero going out to conquer the scary water! We were all quite a spectacle...
Once we reached the water though we were all glad to be decked head to toe with rubber as the water was FREEZING! So we piled in the raft and our tour guide started to go over the different comands that he would be shouting as we were in the rapids. Andrew and I ended up in a spanish speaking raft, so we had to learn to translate his yells into directions...Adelante (forward), Alto (stop), Bajo (backward), Dereche (right), and Izquierda (left). Andrew was in the front as well, so he was one of the navigators...and when someone is yelling at you in spanish to paddle a certain direction, and you forget what means what it can be kind of interesting, but he did very good for his first time... haha
Anyways, the rapids were great! We had a fun time doing 360´s in the raft, navigating around rocks and cheering "CERVEZA (beer)" after we made it safely through each rapid! 
At one point they even let us cliff jump into the river, Andrew climbed up twice to take advantage of the opportunity
...and we also got to swim in the rapids for a bit, the only problem was that I failed to take notice of a rock that was right by our boat when I jumped in and I landed squarely on my bum and now I have a big bruise because of it, ah well... it was worth it!
Our raft was full of first timers actually, we had 3 girls from spain that were having a hellofa time throwing themselves around the raft based on the guides orders...at first they were timid and scared, and by the end they were power house paddlers! We even met up for a beer last night to laugh about the day, and all of us were sore but in good spirits. :D
I think Andrew is addicted now...so we will look for another trip in the future, maybe where we can camp overnight and do two days of rafting! Can our butts (and our arms) handle it? lol :D
...I think so!
They unloaded us from the tourist bus and started handing out wetsuits, shorts, life jackets, and water booties. Before we knew what was happening we all started to look like some vague form of super hero going out to conquer the scary water! We were all quite a spectacle...
Once we reached the water though we were all glad to be decked head to toe with rubber as the water was FREEZING! So we piled in the raft and our tour guide started to go over the different comands that he would be shouting as we were in the rapids. Andrew and I ended up in a spanish speaking raft, so we had to learn to translate his yells into directions...Adelante (forward), Alto (stop), Bajo (backward), Dereche (right), and Izquierda (left). Andrew was in the front as well, so he was one of the navigators...and when someone is yelling at you in spanish to paddle a certain direction, and you forget what means what it can be kind of interesting, but he did very good for his first time... haha
Anyways, the rapids were great! We had a fun time doing 360´s in the raft, navigating around rocks and cheering "CERVEZA (beer)" after we made it safely through each rapid! At one point they even let us cliff jump into the river, Andrew climbed up twice to take advantage of the opportunity...and we also got to swim in the rapids for a bit, the only problem was that I failed to take notice of a rock that was right by our boat when I jumped in and I landed squarely on my bum and now I have a big bruise because of it, ah well... it was worth it!Our raft was full of first timers actually, we had 3 girls from spain that were having a hellofa time throwing themselves around the raft based on the guides orders...at first they were timid and scared, and by the end they were power house paddlers! We even met up for a beer last night to laugh about the day, and all of us were sore but in good spirits. :D
I think Andrew is addicted now...so we will look for another trip in the future, maybe where we can camp overnight and do two days of rafting! Can our butts (and our arms) handle it? lol :D...I think so!
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