Avon/Swan River 2017 - Sunday 19th Feb - Lookout to Bells Rapids @ 2.25m
Channel: Terry Russell
Date: 20/02/2017

The last video from Lookout to Bells was high, this is higher!

The predicted level of the Walyunga Paddlers Gauge (http://www.whitewaterperth.org.au/water-level.html) was about 1.8m, but as we paddled past the gauge it read 2.25m, these high levels are very hard to estimate accurately..
Based on this and other information, I can say that the water level last weekend (my two videos say predicted 2.2m Sat and 2.1m Sun) was at least 3m, I am saying 3.5m on Saturday and 3m on Sunday.
Stay tuned in another week or so I will make a video showing where the high water mark got to at various places..

Today most of the rapids were washed out like last time but the holes that remained were even more massive.. I again managed to miss the big waves at Championships (6:15) but this time we decided to go down the chicken chute at Syds Rapids (16:00). I have never paddled down here before but it turned out to be a fairly wide easy passage, yet I still eddied out halfway down! (17:15) Those trees are very dangerous if you get washed sideways into one, you can become trapped in a kayak and the pressure of the water can be too great for any person to free you from.. You can see the chicken chute on the left looking upstream in my previous Lookout to Bells video (https://youtu.be/tyus1ONVVVk?t=1180)

This video finishes with the four of us getting out above Bells Rapids to have a look from the footbridge. The next video coming will show us shooting Bells Rapids, plus a rescue/recovery of a certain well known Perth kayaking legend :)