As you have probably noticed so far, I am doing here in New Zealand things that are VERY different. The last 3 days were probably the most different adventure I have done here. The Whanganui river journey, as it is called, is one of NZ "great walks" as they defined. But it's not a walk - it's a canoe journey. You pack all your stuff in water proof barrels, tie them to the canoe, take paddles (one each and one spare... just in case), put yourself and your partner on the canoe, and off you go. No guide, no group - it's just us and the river. In the season or in the weekend there are probably many canoes there, but the day we started, only one more English couple started too. We got a very
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