Oparara river

The Oparara is situated just north of Karamea on the west coast, though unlike most west coast runs this river runs through Kahurangi national park which is quite a different chunk of land to most of the coast.The Oparara has more in common with the golden bay runs. You start off with really scenic flat water with an amazing limestone arch over the river the moria gate, soon after this the river gorges up. It has

a lot of timber and portages in the 1st gorge, but goes through some amazing country, we saw 3 blueducks on this trip 1 we watched for 5mins or so, it was untagged and was totally unconcerned about us . Theres some fun drops too. Heres Gus getting amongst things.