Steelpoort – Getting Too Cocky?

There had been some rain at home but not a great amount. Not certainly within the last few days, although several localised thunderstorms should have done the trick. I was desperate for a paddle and so Luke Longridge and I drove down early that Sunday morning and met up with Neil O’Leary and Chris Barichievy. Having our usual breakfast of Steers was great, like always, and after that we hit the road to the put-in.

Luke had just got his medium Fluid Solo and desperately wanted to test it out and I was back in my Fluid Spice and keen to take it down again. Unfortunately the water levels didn’t want to cooperate that day and it was low. Well, there was nothing we could do about that and even paddling 35km of rock infested water was better than sitting at home and not paddling. With a drop in gradient of 350m the average works out quite nicely and is better than most rivers. With water, this river is a beast. Browse the ‘trip reports’ section of this website to find more articles of the Steelpoort and also one of it in flood.

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