River rules...

I’d been exploring. Familiar territory but trying the dead end roads we tend to miss when travelling more common loop routes. Nice winter day. Fresh snow on mountains, clear and still below. Lunch in the sun. Perfick, as Pop Larkin (David Jason) said in a TV drama.

Next day, however – NEWS FLASH – ‘Boy dies in 4WD rolled in Clyde River’ (Mid Canterbury), ‘Stranded people rescued