We booked a tour bus to take us the 35 KM or so to Pipiriki. Whanganui River Adventures is operated by a Maori family. We travelled in a jet boat 32 KM up the Whanganui river to “A bridge to nowhere”. The bridge was built in 1936 to join what was to be two roads that ended up not being built. We had a most interesting account of the history of the area from the driver Tom - the son of Tom senior who had driven the jet boat in 2014.
We encountered many canoeists. One group of 28 people doing it and the prime organiser had done this every year for about 42 years! The canoe trip takes about five days. All the canoes have to have waterproof containers as they often capsize. We witnessed a group of about four capsizes and our jet boat even helped to rescue one pair in which there was a somewhat frightened young girl.
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