2024 LCC River Karnali Trip – Nepal
Day 5 – Barahatal to Scorpion Beach Paddling Day 2
Having been told we would be on the water at 9.30/10.00 this morning, there was no need for an early start but we were all up anyway before 7.00 am.
This was our first full day on the river and our first morning in camp to get to know the routine. It was get up, take tents down, hot water and tea/coffee/etc were on the table from 7ish each morning and breakfast was served around 8 am. Breakfast consisted of toast, pancakes, rice pudding, a Nepalese vegetable dish and more. After breakfast, finish packing up your personal kit and then help load the rafts.
Rafts loaded, it was time to go. We paddled for about an hour and a half in the morning and similar in the afternoon with a relaxed picnic lunch on a beach in between.
The river at this point was similar to the day before with quite easy but big and bouncy rapids, although perhaps not quite as big… or maybe I was getting used to them already.
At camp that evening, the routine was the same as the day before, although some of us also made time for a bathe in the river. Tonight’s snack was freshly made prawn crackers and the evening meal was maybe stew with garlic bread.
After dinner, we relaxed watching the night sky where millions of stars were visible.