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    PADDLING BETWEEN GIANTS

    Oct 21, 2021 4 minutes
    BY PETER LAURENSON

    There was a pleasing symmetry to the Chute, but it did little to mask the menace implied by the short stretch of water where steep rocky walls squeezed the entire flow of the Clarence River into a four metre-wide channel. Or the jagged fang of rock dead ahead.

    We’d been on the water a couple of hours, yet we’d reached the crux of the five-day journey down Waiau Toa/Clarence River.

    We pulled out upstream from the Chute to scope it out on foot. “Hmm, I wouldn’t want to get folded around that,” I remarked to our skipper Simon, pointing to the jagged rock in the middle of

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