finally photos

So I've figured out the whole photo to computer thing now, thanks to Sean. We just got back from a trip to the Sun Kosi. It takes about seven or eight days on the river to complete. We left last wednesday and got back yesterday. We actually left the trip early, for a number of reasons. When we arrived at the bus last wednesday we realised the trip only had one raft, which had seven Russians, of which only one or two could speak English. We knew it would be a long lonely river trip. We had some craic with the Nepalese guides but they were generally working setting up camp and cooking etc, so we ended up with a lot of time to ourselves. As much as I like Sean it got a bit boring at times. Then to make things worse the river was actually really low, so instead of it being a good solid class 3plus to 4, it turned out to be mainly flatwater floating with only a handful of good rapids spread over the whole trip. There were some nice rapids like Hakapur, it should have been grade 5 but with low water was only 4.Here's sean running Hakapur- There were other good sections like jungle corridor which had about six rapids one after the other all big big volume, nice and fun, but not too difficult. The real low point of the trip was probably when my toothbrush broke! By the monday we had spent six days of mainly flat paddling and were getting fed up with the lack of banter. We found out that they would spend the next two to three days on the river floating a section that would normally take four hours, then they were planning on spending a night in a hotel at the get-out before heading back to Kathmandu. We did not like the sound of this so we got directions to the take-out, got up early tuesday morning and headed off with all our gear in our boats and paddled to the take-out by ourselves. From there we got a bus to Kathmandu, a 17 hour bus ride that was absolute hell. We managed to get the last two seats on the bus, bad idea! there were seven of us spread across five seats in the back row, no foot-room, and at one point there was a guy sitting beside me who smelt worse than me and sean, and we'd spent seven days on the river! Now don't get me wrong it was great camping out on the river and paddling everyday, but it just got to the point where we were completely fed up with floating down flatwater and there being no banter off the river, lessons learnt

1--make sure there is more than one raft on the trip,

2-- bring way more than one bottle of rum!

3--try to have a group of more than two

4-- find a reliable source for water levels

5-- never get the back seat on a long bus journey.

Well the peak uk himalayan competition is on the Bhote Kosi this weekend so we'll head up for that, should hook up withsome more paddlers and have some craic.Fun and games