There is plenty of room for adventure tourism growth in SA, writes Graeme Addison LIVING the Best Day Ever is the title of an autobiography by Hendri Coetzee, "the greatest African explorer you have never heard of", published after his death. In December 2010, he was taken by a crocodile on the Lakuga River, a tributary of the Congo, in a first of its kind whitewater kayaking exploration from the headwaters of the White Nile and Congo Rivers into the Democratic Republic of Congo.His body was never found. Coetzee’s love of adventure knew no limits. He was a contemplative philosopher of the outdoors and — not too unusually among adventurers — was a great writer who brought the fear and high excitement of his life to full flower in a blog. In an account of a solo trip on the crocodile-infested upper Nile, he outpaddled several of the monsters by small margins; but the day came when his luck ran out.To risk going where none have gone before calls to mind what Robert Falcon Scott wrote i...
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