YES! Very much so!! And going deep under the water and just hanging there and hearing the river stones gently grinding over each other with the flow of the water! And climbing up the banks and trees to jump down into the deepest part ....or swimming down the rapids on a tyre tube,,,, rivers are awesome!! When we was a kid I used to take off for the day pretending we was escaping the evil king and I would go up the river through the bush as far as I could and if I saw hunters I pretended they were evil huntsman out to get me and I had to evade them. It was the coolest!!