Stanley river.

The Stanley river runs from lake Stanley into the Waingaro river which runs into the Takaka river. We flu to about 1km downstream of the lake and then had 2 6 hour days spending the night at Waingaro forks hut on the way through. I didnt realise while organizing the trip that as far as we know the Stanley has only been paddled once before 15 years ago, this i found out while yarning with Phil our pilot 4 days before we flu. There are to many rapids to describe or single out, pretty much the order of pics is how we found it. The crew was made up of; Ally corbett white scud, Andrew Goodjear red java, Heather Rhodes blue huck, me in big yella. We portaged a few, some because of the isolation factor, the big portage of the trip was around a log jam at the tail of a long rapid, you could have paddled under one of the logs if you were on line after running the rest of the rapid, 2 days from home we took the walk,bout 1 hour later we were back on the water.