"Thursday 2nd Nov 06 Paul and Ben McDonald along with Steve White and myself paddled the lower Taff in glorious sunshine with a decent water level.
We started at the usual place Radyr weir. After some inspection I managed to convince the rest of the party to shoot the weir on the right hand side next to the re-circulating pool of death! With an ugly audience egging us on we paddled over the lip of the weir in timely fashion. Everyone completed this first hurdle without incident and found some small waves to play on before heading on down the river.
The day was cold; however, the sun was very strong which made the autumnal colours dance on the waters edge as we passed by the various shopping trolley’s and washed out foliage from the previous weeks high rain fall.
Anyway, the rest of the trip was filled with trying to steal Ben’s Mars Bar and practicing breaking in and out of some of the strong grade two eddies.
The broken weir was worth stopping and playing with everyone going down backwards and generally enjoying the decent water. The only other highlight was a show of macho strength at a small, but strong flowing eddie. The objective was to paddle up to a small protruding rock and through a very powerful grade seven wave. Note it was only a grade seven wave when I did it! Ben and Paul managed to do it only because they had smaller boats and paddlers!
All in all a good, pleasant afternoons paddle on the Lower Taff was had by all. Well done to Ben for getting on most of the waves and thanks to Steve and Paul for the company.
Regards
Andy Rees"
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