Rio Toro

As you might have noticed from previous posts, Brian and I (emphasis on Brian) loved our white water rafting trip down the Rio Pacuare. One just wasn't enough from the white water capital of the world. We wanted more rapids and more excitement, so we headed for the Rio Toro! It was a class IV river with 25 consectuive rapids (much different than the Pacuare that had about 5 minutes rest in between the rapids). During the safety talk one lady got so scared she cried and refused to go on the river...not us, we were ready! Brian earned the top spot at the front of the boat again, and I moved up to middle. We had so much fun hitting the rapids! This river is dam controlled and today they only let out about half the power that is allowable to raft on, so it was a little low, but good nonetheless. There were many boulders that would come out of nowhere and many times we had to maneuver our boat around them. One of the guys was the first casualty of the river...our first man-overboard experience. We grabbed his jacket and hauled him back in the boat...no harm done. About an hour later we were right in the middle of a set of class IV rapids when we slammed into a huge rock and I was catapulted into the river! It all happened so fast...the boat went one way down the rapids and I went another! My life jacket and helmet had me safe and sound through the rapids and the safety kayaker came over so I could crab on to his boat. He towed me forward to our boat and Brian pulled me back in. My swim was no problem, just proves how rough this river was. When it was all over we had lost another girl in the river, again rescued without issue. The river was great, a definite adrenaline experience; just what we wanted!