Journey OutdoorsIn Nature

On the Nymboida, Boyd, Mann and Clarence Rivers of the Northern Rivers hinterland, Laura Stamper leads Journey Outdoors In Nature's whitewater canoe expeditions, drawing on years of guiding this stretch of water to run everything from single-day skills sessions to multi-day immersion journeys with names like FLOW and CONNECT, trips built as much around a slower kind of attention as around reading rapids. The school also delivers Paddle Australia–accredited whitewater guide and instructor training and Swiftwater Rescue courses, work that keeps the operation grounded in real technical competence. Programs extend to outdoor education for secondary schools, Duke of Edinburgh expeditions, and themed weekends — a fathers-and-daughters paddling trip among them — alongside restoration work on the Clarence River Wilderness Lodge property where some trips are based. It's a fit for travellers wanting whitewater paddling with some depth to it: real instruction, a guide who knows the river's moods, and a program that treats a few days on the water as more than a checklist item.