THE WHANGANUI RIVER:
a Great Walk with no walking
Our writer, Anna, took her partner for a five-day paddle down Whanganui River. She survived to tell the tale, but did her relationship?...
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s we edged the canoe off a bed of pebbles and hopped gingerly into its rocking hull, a man, who was also untying himself from the embankment, and evidently on the same Whanganui River journey as ourselves, casually enquired if we’d fallen out yet. “Only with each other!” – quipped my partner.
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