I went for a paddle yesterday. Shane (Devons brother) came along and as it was right on high tide (and a mean SW wind was blowing across Golden Bay) we decided to see how far up the mouth of the Maitai river we could get. The river meets the sea right by the central business district so you can literally paddle right through town. We got as far as the Riverside swimming pool before we got beyond the reaches of the tide and were faced with a steep shallow rapid. I was surprised to see half a dozen whitebaiter lining the banks. One of them asked us if we had seen any whitebait. We hadn't. Apparently none of them had either... perhaps the chance to spend a few hours parked on a treelined river bank, doing very little but watching the river slide by, was what lured them all there?
5:18:38 PM 
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