Swimming Coliseum by Nevan Hindmarsh

So last Thursday it was big water bacon beat down and we approached colesium and started scouting it. I heared rumours from some people that we may be swimming it and I started crapping myself. I’ve even been pretty scared swimming rapids like Phil’s and this was like Phil’s on drugs. The main wave big kahuna was pretty big but the part that scared me the most was the ticket to hell boils that followed on the river left side. I thought that I was 100% going to be dragged down and would not have a pleasant time. As we started scouting I became more and more nervous running through all the possibilities of bad scenarios that could happen. After we finished scouting the whole group started going to drop their squirts off and walking upstream to a put in. I was so dumbfounded at the thought that every single other person was not as scared as I was to run this. Out of pear FOMO I started following the group while I tried to shut my brain off and not think about the 500 foot tall foam pile that lay a bit downstream. Everybody started jumping in one by one which left at the back of the line thinking if I should stay back and be a wimp or drown myself in colesium. I followed jumping in as the last person and waited for the rapid to give me one round knockout and I would be dragged underwater but unlike what I expected there was a big punched but I resurfaced shorty after. Then I hit the next wave and came back up, and the next wave and soon after I found myself swimming for the Eddie. It wasn’t so bad. So that sums up my experience and shows how expectations are not always reality. Sent from my iPhone