{"id":1875,"date":"2007-12-03T12:10:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-03T11:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/paddler-lifestyle-articles\/benpyranha\/2-days-14-hours-3-rivers-welsh-creekin-at-its-best\/"},"modified":"2007-12-03T12:10:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-03T11:10:00","slug":"2-days-14-hours-3-rivers-welsh-creekin-at-its-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/2-days-14-hours-3-rivers-welsh-creekin-at-its-best\/","title":{"rendered":"2 day&#8217;s &#8211; 14 hours &#8211; 3 rivers &#8211; Welsh creekin at its best&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Sometimes, just sometimes, everything comes together with no real effort to make something perfect&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/RGdC5bkHDOE\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><!--more--><br \/>\n<span><\/span>The river season so far this year has sucked, most people scrabbling around trying in vain to find some water somewhere &#8211; anywhere. Infact it has become so bad that most of my kayking friends [myslef included] have resulting to muttering under there breath and rocking in the corner.<\/p>\n<p>Well i&#8217;m here to brag &#8211; not a little, a lot! A week of checking the met office and doing my bestest Micheal Fish impressions reveleaded a slim chance of water in South Wales for the weekend [and if that failed some big storm swell \/ surf to play in!].<\/p>\n<p>Not saying that we were all desperate for some white water action but we all randomly turned up an hour early to the dictated service station meeting point &#8211; no time for the usual lazy fried breakfast either &#8211; It had rained &#8211; not a little either &#8211; there was water which only meant one thing, we were on for the triple&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Starting off with the walking into the Mellte in the rain [only in the UK would you be happy to be walking through the middle of knowhere in the pouring rain!], moving onto the Nedd Fechan finishing it off with a sunset play session down the Tawe.<\/p>\n<p>More rain forecast for the Saturday night, so we decided to head over to Swansea to sample the local delights! Sunday morning showed more water than we were expecting , so hangovers throbbing we headed high up the Tawe, getting on where the river was litterally running over the moor and no wider than to fit a creek boat. We spent the rest of the day, slip sliding and boofing our way down the many of the Tawe&#8217;s slides and drops.<\/p>\n<p>2 day&#8217;s, 14 hours, 3 rivers -Welsh creeking at its best &#8211; go and find your own adventure &#8211; the Micheal Fish in me is telling me theres more water on the way&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Ben<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, just sometimes, everything comes together with no real effort to make something perfect&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paddler-lifestyle-articles"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9tk9G-uf","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}