One more river to cross?
Last month I wrote of the perils of Canterbury’s large braided rivers that regularly snare people and vehicles due to their headwaters being on the opposite side of the island. Freshes (or fresh flows) can arrive unheralded to trap people on islands or the wrong side. Smaller rivers can do this too.
Most North Island and some South Island rivers are confined to fairly permanent channels. Others though are braided types, most of which are in the
