South Island Gallery / Whitewater / 2009-12 West Coast Heliboating

Awesome five days boating on the West Coast: Totara, Kakapotahi, Arahura, and multiday Upper Hokitika/Colliers Gorge trip staying at Rapid Creek hut and tramping up the Whitcombe the next day.

Seth on Totara, low flow	Jo Beth on Totara	'PE' on Totara	Waster on Totara	Bug on Upper Kakapotahi, awesome flow
Craig on Postman's fall on Kakapotahi	Letterbox	Bug on Letterbox	PE above Airmail	Bug on Tunnel rapid
Bug	PE	PE	Safety cover	Craig in the tunnel
Craig	Seth on the lower	Bug on lower	First rapid on Arahura	Craig and PE in the third gorge
Vaughan and Bug	Vaughan	Ken	Craig	Waster
PE exits the gorge	Bug	Vaughan	Ken	Bottom of Billiards
Second gorge rapids	Second gorge	Ken in First Gorge on Arahura	First gorge	Waster in First Gorge
Kerry on first rapid of Upper Hokitika	Piere	Gwyn	Bug	Gwyn
Kerry	Kerry on the big new rapid below where Viagra was	PE	Tom falling off the first gorge entrance fall	Bug
Gwyn	PE	Kerry lines up for the first must-run drop	Second gorge entrance	Kerry again
Bug below the big waterfall portage	Bug	Bug escaping the cave	Rapids deep in second gorge	Bug
Bug	Kerry	Exit of second gorge	Another new rapid below the second gorge	Old Bluff hut bridge
Kerry	Gwyn in the Lower, Kakariki canyon	Second heli-trip for price of 1	PE and the awesome trout he caught us!	Cooking over the Rapid Creek Hut stove
Leaving Rapid Creek hut the next day, heading off up Whitcombe	PE on the Colliers Gorge 'path' in the rain	Long walk in	Gwyn at the top of Colliers Gorge	Good high flow on Whitcombe
3rd heli-trip of the Whitcombe, plenty of carnage!

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