Posted 04/08/2013
After a productive morning spent presenting our Quality Assurance Procedures and Technical Updates, the EKA team ventured to the Lee Valley White Water Centre to board a raft and experience the fast flowing rapids.
We began the afternoon by squeezing into our wetsuits and naturally started with the safety training. As the team passed this with flying colours (well with enthusiasm anyway), we embarked on our journey to the rapids.
By the second lap of rafting, everyone was feeling confident and unfazed as our Guide was washed overboard and bobbed quickly past.
This was short lived of course, and it wasn’t long before half of the EKA team were in the water. Thankfully, the remaining rafters managed to pull the floaters back into the raft and continued with the trip down the rapids.
As our rafting time was coming to an end, now used to navigating the ravaging water, the team contributed every last bit of energy to our last lap around the rapids.
Inevitably, the journey didn’t end with smiles as big as at the start. The raft completely capsized throwing everyone including the Guide, straight into the wild waters. While most of the team managed to get some help back onto the raft, this was not the case for all, with a couple of team members ending their day with mouths and noses full of water and our Managing Director washed well downstream.
The day was a complete success, and it finished with a well-deserved steak and red wine.
Special awards for day are as follows:
Most time out of the Raft– Don Perry (new member to the EKA Team)
Best at holding on– Kim Rattray (Our Team Administrator)
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