Calgary river raft ride

Let us come back to summertime once more! To those days when the grass was green, when we would not wear hat, gloves, scarf, down-jacket, 5 layers of clothing... oh my! those days were long and warm (sort of) and the Sun actually made it above the horizon: right now I am not sure I could say there are sunrise and sunset... for us it is like the same thing lasting for some hours :-( So anyway, let us remember those times, shall we?

In August Gus and I rented a raft to go down the river from the outskirts of Calgary to downtown. We had never done rafting before, and at least technically it wasn't too difficult (of course the river does not really have rapids -well, just a couple of tiny little ones- and it was very shallow throughout). The whole ride was like 4 and a half hours total... much more than what we had anticipated! And at some point we were fed up and tired of paddling, but we had to make it to where the car was parked, otherwise it would have been even more annoying to carry the raft (it is heavy!) to any train station...

Even though it was summer, the river was freezing cold and after 3 and half hours so were our asses, you know... Anyways, we were definitely relieved to finally see the downtown (background of the picture). The vague promise of a prompt arrival made us paddle even faster (we should have been the slowest ones, as everybody else would pass us :-S)... but it turned out the downtown was still 1 hour away...

... and in fact in this 1-minute video you can tell our lack of energy when we finally reached downtown (we became too relaxed and ended up hitting the rocks at the shore -almost dropped my camera in the river!-)

But we did survive, we got to our jeep, all parts of our bodies recovered their normal temperature, and we went celebrate our victory to some fancy restaurant afterwards. :-) As you can see, and despite of the winter times these days (well, it is allegedly still Fall in here and not officially Winter yet :-0) we Malagans always go back where the tempeture is warm: we go to either huge indoor Waterparks... or we time-travel! (in our minds and in our blog).

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