The ShotOver

Queenstown - tourist central.
Not my cuppa-tea really ...... far far too many people, too tourist based and much too expensive!!
However, in the poor towns defence, it is home to the ShotOver river - which makes up for all the touristy bullcrap we had to put up with:
We ran the "Gorge Section" of the river. Not the most demanding river I've done here, infact most of it was riffling grade 2 stuff (reminded me very much of the Ardech'e). However the sun was shining, it was a decent length and the scenery was next to none - which made it a very enjoyable run.
The only real action to report came in the last 1.5km's:- a few really nice grade 4 rapids, "mother-in-law", "jaws" and "the Germans" (the last Doni wasnt too pleased about).
The best part was a 100m-or-so tunnel through a cliff-face you had to paddle through! It was really weird (and quite scarey) to paddle rapids into the dark abyse.... the guidebook said to 'just keep your boat straight and aim for the blob of light at the end'. This was followed by a rocky slide/drop .... really nice but a little painful on the elbows!