Wrap Rock

After Joe Creek, on the fourth day of our trip, we were in the Mountain Reach of the Firth. There were many rapids, and it was not long before our group was scouting Sluice Box Rapids. The guides pronounced it runnable, and, as we had in 2015, we ran the rapids with full rafts.
Soon we stopped again to scout the rapids at Wrap Rock, and this time it was a different story. The guests were asked to walk along the riverbank around this obstacle while the guides brought the rafts through. They were being cautious. The rock obtained its unusual name because some years ago a poor guide wrapped his raft around the upstream end of the rock. As far as I know, no tourists were lost, but it was a big job to get the raft moving again. In 2015 when we were on the Firth for the first time, the guides called it House Rock, so the incident probably occurred after 2015. 
Wrap Rock is a huge boulder that fell many years ago from the cliffs on river left and divided the river into two channels. With the low water during our trip, the wider channel to the right of the rock was too shallow for the rafts, and they would need to go through the much narrower channel to the left where the water was deeper but also very fast. Each raft was eventually brought through with two guides on board. Then the tourists were taken on board again, and we went on down the river. 
The rapids became more and more frequent, and there was to be more excitement for our raft. It ran aground on a huge rock in the middle of a big rapid and paddling and jumping up and down was unable to dislodge it. Eventually our guide Jim stepped out of the raft onto the rock and gave our raft a huge push. Fortunately, he was able to jump safely back into the raft as it suddenly moved on.
We had been hearing thunder during the day along the river, and we had just gone ashore at Wolf Tors and put up our tent when the rain started. We relaxed for about an hour in our tent listening to the rain patter on the fly before we went out to enjoy a fine evening.