Go to time 1:50 on this national geographic video to see two kayakers running rapid #9 on the Zambezi. The amazing thing to me is how many strokes he gets in while going down the ramp into the whitewater. Big.

The Zambezi runs on the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe, and 100,000 CFS is considered to be low water there. It runs, I have been told, as high as a million CFS. They say in the video that it's high water, but not how high.

Here's a blog with good info and pictures of the Zambezi. I only know of it because some guides I have worked with also worked there. I have no intention of going to run this whitewater. I prefer little creeks and lower risk.

Sounds like young South Africans have finally gotten the news that condom use is the way to avoid infection. The report I have here (from The Week) says that people are still having multiple sex partners, but new infection rates have declined significantly. South Africa has the worlds largest HIV positive population, some 5.2 million people. Of South African women age 20-34, one third are HIV positive. One third. It's not hard to imagine the disaster in the future.