Wild Waters

Exciting and irrelevant adventures in NZ’s backcountry.

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Himal to Karnali: Extended version

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Himal to Terai: Entry to the 2025 International Packraft Film Festival

What is this blog about?

An adventure blog, recollecting in various shades of accuracy the places the author has been, and people he shared it with. The tales are written to excite and entertain and become decidedly less accurate when divulging the embarrassing mistakes his companions have made.

Kayaking

Tramping

Hunting

Light Mountaineering

Packrafting

Random Adventure

Latest Posts

Heuristic Trap: Commitment

Heuristic Trap: Commitment An article for the Winter 2026 edition of the PRANZ newsletter. This is the first of a six part series on heuristic traps or mental shortcuts. These can sometime lead us into dangerous situations. They are the situations that leave you wondering “how did I get here” and afterwards the decision seems…
The most important safety skill

An article for the Summer 2025 edition of the PRANZ newsletter. This one covers a vital but often unrecognised safety skill. What is the most important safety skill? Think quickly, and without reading ahead, I want you decide on an answer of the one single most important safety skill a paddler could have. Got it? …

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About the author

Umm hi… I wasn’t really expecting anyone to scroll this far down.

Did you see the latest posts bit?

Oh, you’re still here.

Well, here you go I guess.

Perserverent bugger…

About the author

How often do you post?

Why don’t you include route descriptions?

When the last time you had to drink a beer out of your bootie?

You know, just the usual things people want to know…