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The tide is in…

September 2, 2011

High water came without warning over the Nile in the last couple of months. At first light, the river is often a jumble of darkened rocks, much to the delight of the African Open-billed storks, who make the most of the low water to gather snails for breakfast from cracks in the normally-submerged rocks. However, [...]

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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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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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The African Queen

April 9, 2011

Just the mention of The African Queen ignites all sorts of romantic and nostalgic feelings of the dark continent. Made famous by the classic film starring Katharine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart, ‘The African Queen first sailed onto the silver screen in 1951 and was immediately acclaimed as a Technicolour tour of the jungle wonders enriched [...]

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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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Nile Perch

December 24, 2010

Fishing from the deck of their room, some guests at Wildwaters Lodge recently landed three respectable Nile Perch before releasing them back in the river.  Around Wildwaters, as the name implies, the river is very turbulent and this creates a safe haven for large fish.  It is too dangerous for fishermen to come near with [...]

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Otters for Christmas

December 24, 2010

There is always the thunder of the rapids, and the magical calls of our thriving populations of birds, but Bill noticed another call the one morning. We have seen them before, walking nimbly along the rocks beside the rapids and striking out with small claws on the flatter sections of rock, almost oblivious to the [...]

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New photo folders

October 7, 2010

The new technology Adrift introduced in August of this year for photographs has proved extremely popular.  A cleverly designed folder houses the best images and they arefar superior to any image produced on a laser printer.  The sub-dye printers turn out fabulous 6”x8” images captured by Stevo and Ivan from the riverbanks, mid-stream rocks and [...]

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Kidepo Valley National Park

October 7, 2010

I wandered from the tent barefoot onto the warm red earth, which was still steaming from the deluge.  Water trickled down the nearby kopje (rock outcrop) and ran through parts of our almost hill-top camp.  I raised the binoculars to look across the valley for game, pausing briefly to marvel at the views.  Kidepo is [...]

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