Friday, July 27, 2007















More rain. Fucken excellent. The River is in flood, highest it's been for a couple of years. This was my office for about seven years - in a past life as an outdoor adventure instructor. I used to love it when there were thunderstorms and hail while white water rafting. All, well most, of the clients would shut the fuck up and you could hear the hail pinging off the aluminium paddle handles. And the thunder rolling down the valley.
Of course I usually had to go for a dip when the silly cunts went arse up in the rapids, my wetsuit looked like a mad knife slasher had gone beserk on it. Cuts and slashes all over from bouncing off jagged rocks. Still I never lost anyone, and the River has claimed a few. Sometimes idiots try it on surfboards, usually not very succesfully. Some places have twenty foot high stationary waves. You have to know how to read the rapids, smiling waves are ok - as you get spat out from them; frowning waves keep you in them, and drag you under.
Best thing about the rain is most of the tourists fuck off and stay at their city homes. Cunts.

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Blogger little things said...

I cannot even imagine, for a moment, or a milisecond, having my dear Rackorf as my outdoor adventure instructor.
I assure you that I would have been your first loss.
;)

8:52 PM  
Blogger rackorf said...

I don't know, you seem to be a rather fierce and robust little thing, but if I had to, i'd tie a rope to you so you wouldn't get lost.

3:37 PM  
Blogger fifi said...

Twenty foot high stationary waves?
whoa.

I would love to go belting down that river, but I must say I am not keen on colliding with rocks.
Hail! Wonderful!

Smiling waves, I like that.

Hey guess what, I thought of you this morning cos the waves are doing the zipper thing...backwashing and smashing. Its just great: really silvery with big plumes. Too populated for you though.

Hooray for rain. Must smell great.Hope it soaked right down under the ground so the trees dont all fall over...!

4:06 PM  
Blogger little things said...

Bah. And here I sit in this rain-soaked, oceanless, humid, mosquito-bitten paradise called Texas....

7:39 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I went to the beach yesterday & found something for you, enjoy!
here

& yeah, there were some rotten tourist kids destroying the marine life in the tide pools. I had to remind them that it was illegal to do that.

it sounds like you've had an exciting life so far. have you ever almost died doing any of that?
Just curious...

3:04 PM  
Blogger rackorf said...

It looks wild when the waves do the zipper thing fifi - sometimes it looks like there is something just under the surface making the water spray up.
The rain does smell great! All the bush is new again.
I never imagined that Texas would have mossies, or much rain either, little things. Enjoy. Do they come with fun shit like Ross River Virus as well??
Thanks l>t, thats a good looking seagull. The fucken squarky, bait nicking, cunts. I'd like to berley up a heap of them and say hi with a spaz 12.
I've had some interesting close shaves so far; two motor bike prangs, hit by richochets three times, had a shotgun blow up in my hands (still got bits of that in my arm), got stabbed once, and have fallen three stories and landed face first on a concrete path - now that fucken hurt a bit.

3:39 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

3 stories & landed on your face, hmmmm.
I bet you can guess what I'm wondering, right?

8:38 PM  
Blogger rackorf said...

Ummm, so how come I landed on my face? Two half pikes and a backflip so I'm told.

1:13 AM  
Blogger Arcturus said...

We actually have a place on the Potomac River called Great Falls located about 10 miles NW of Washington, D.C. It's where the Appalachian Piedmont descends to the Atlantic coastal plain. The falls are actually rated a Class 5 on the "International Scale of River Difficult."

We finally had some good rains yesterday, as we're in a damn drought (even as Little Things' area gets inundated). My friend and I drove up to Great Falls, although it was already was rather late so we didn't go.

By the way, what falls are those pictured in your entry?

3:09 PM  
Blogger rackorf said...

They do not have a name as such, just one of numerous rocky outcrops.
We used to call this one Iceberg, due to all the foam that looks like floating ice - which is what we told the punters it was - as in "Geez it looks cold, look at all the ice in the River, I'm so glad I have a wetsuit" - (they, in most cases, didn't - hahaha)

12:31 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

well, i wasn't thinking about whether or not you did a swan dive but if it messed up your good looks any. ;]

5:31 PM  
Blogger rackorf said...

Not a chance. Same old head as I've always had - the stiches that I had to get in it won't show until I go bald, or shave it again.

1:08 AM  
Blogger little things said...

You're a tough thing, you are.

7:20 AM  

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