Clarence River / Waiau-Toa

The Waiau-Toa / Clarence rises at Lake Tennyson in the St James high country and runs more than 200 kilometres to the Pacific, making it the longest river in Canterbury and one of the least known in the country. Its name means river of the brave warriors. For most of its length it threads a long straight valley between the Inland and Seaward Kaikōura ranges, through Molesworth Station country, before rounding the end of the Seaward Kaikōuras and meeting the sea north of Kaikōura. There is no road down it. Five days on the water is the only way to see the middle of this valley, and once you push off there is nothing to do but travel with the river.

Waiau-Toa / Clarence River 5 Day Journey

Five days following the Clarence from the Canterbury high country all the way to the Pacific - a true wilderness river journey, gentle Grade 2 water, four nights under canvas.

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