After escaping the lousy weather, Mekicevica's crew spent the Sunday trying the curious sport of rafting in artificial whitewater. Yes, there is such thing: near Arras in Northern France they used part of an old canal to build a whitewater stream by pumping water through a circuit of plastic obstacles.
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| Rafting in artificial whitewater. They are not paddling upstream, just struggling to keep the thing pointing in the right direction. |
It was much harder work that expected. Also a lot of fun, even when we managed to capsize the raft and the whole crew of six went tumbling down to the calm waters at the end.
Still not a sport I will rush to take up. At the end of the circuit it connects to one of the French canals. We considered hijacking the raft and making our way to the Canal du Midi, Marseille, and the Mediterranean...
