Rafting the Eel Food (Kaituna) River

If you're looking at the Kaituna River from it's banks you'll most certainly wonder how anybody could ever call it a grade V raft. That's probably if you haven't seen the 7m waterfall, the highest commercially raftable falls in the world.

The build up to the falls was fairly gentle, with a few easy rapids along the way. The boat that took on the falls before us lost and there was some chaos at the bottom. As we approached I remember the river vanishing, us going vertical and then being under water, the boat and all 7 of us. The amazing thing was that we all came up the other side, in one piece and all aboard.