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Exceeding all expectations

September 2, 2011

Board shorts, sunscreen and thrills characterize one of the world’s legendary whitewater rafting runs – the source of the Nile in Uganda. Year-round, adventurers from around the world scramble for the opportunity to raft the heart-pounding whitewater on the Nile, and it’s recently got better. Adrift’s new one-day trip on the Nile has delighted thousands [...]

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Animals rule the waves

June 27, 2011

Below article by Roy Bailey from New Zealand, a good friend of Cam and Kate McLeay, appeared in the ‘Otago Daily Times’ of the 21st of June 2011. Uganda’s white water was the main attraction, but Roy Bailey found much more to like about the country. Really, I couldn’t not go to Uganda. For a [...]

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30 Years

April 9, 2011

Cam McLeay looks back over the last three decades and recounts some of the stories from three decades of worldwide river running, initially in rafts homemade from inner tubes, bailing twine and stout bamboo. It started to rain heavily in the fading light. Before long, the downpour had drowned the fire, the last steam and [...]

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Another First

March 9, 2011

To celebrate the return of President Museveni to power and the 30-year anniversary of rafting for Adrift, we are introducing a new one-day rafting trip to the Nile. With the closure of the Eastern Channel of the river and the entire Nile being re-directed through the powerhouse at the Bujagali Falls dam, we can, no [...]

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Farewell to ‘Big Brother’

March 9, 2011

It has been 15 years since we made the first descent of the Victoria Nile in July 1996, and were told we were ‘mad’ to be introducing whitewater rafting to Uganda. An impassioned bureaucrat told us that they were building another dam across the whole Nile ‘within a couple of months’, and encouraged us to [...]

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Update on construction of the Bujagali dam

September 16, 2010

There seem to be constant delays / updates regarding the construction of the Bujagali dam. The date we have most recently been given is February 2011. At this point, the entire river will be diverted through the western channel of the dam site which means Big Brother (and the wave Silverback) will disappear forever. However, [...]

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Why was an otter walking around a rapid on the Nile?

June 23, 2010

We are often asked about the grade or class of rapids we run on the Nile.  Some people have rafted elsewhere, and want to try and assess what sort of experience they will have relative to other rivers they have rafted.  Many are just looking to boast to friends.  After 30-years of worldwide river rafting, [...]

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Safety Kayaking

April 20, 2010

I watch Paul lying back on the deck of the kayak, eyes closed, and the warm sun penetrating the spray deck and safety helmet he wears.  The tepid waters of the Nile lap gently beneath his boat, and I know that soon he will overheat again, and need to roll beneath the surface just to [...]

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One day rafting – 31 km

February 22, 2010

‘Forward, left-turn, hold on.’ I reach for the rope that traverses the perimeter of the raft and grasp my paddle tightly as the river drops away beneath us. Seconds after I fill my lungs with a healthy gulp of fresh air, a giant wall of green water is towering above us. The raft buckles as [...]

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The ultimate Nile rafting experience

February 22, 2010

I gripped my board tightly and raised my left arm firmly fighting a little resistance from the water. The board continued to bounce like a dolphin on the wave and all I could see was white. My mouth was sealed to avoid swallowing more of the Nile and in a fraction of the second the [...]

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