When people think about Black Friday the first things that come to mind are electronics and clothes. Across the United States people stand in lines, fight for parking spaces, and race to their favorite stores to get big discounts. Here at Kayaking.org Black Friday isn’t about getting the latest-and-greatest TV or cellphone, we’re kayakers and [...]
KAYAKING: Ellis Reservior #4 “The Driftwood Series” Sept30-2011
The Ellis Reservior is one of the places I’ve wanted to paddle for a few years. Finally made it possible in September. Below is our trip report. Here are some of my favourite shots >more in the YouTube video below. Trip Report “The Driftwood Series” If you are planning a paddle on this lake/reservior I would [...]
KAYAKING: Marina to the SS. Sicamous, CN Tug Boat number 6 and back Sept28-2011
Beaches are vacant now that summer is over and the kids are back in school. Felt like spring this morning. Calm waters today for the most part and loads of sunshine. Paddled to the SS. Sicamous then around the point to this old tug then back to the marina on Okanagan Lake Penticton. Looks like [...]
Kayaking News Highlights For The Week Of October 24th, 2011
Welcome to the brand new Kayaking.org and our first weekly news update! Each and every week we’ll be summarizing the news and serving it up for some nice weekend reading. As you can tell we’ve been busy re-designing Kayaking.org from the ground-up and have a lot of exciting new features along the way! Now for [...]
Kayaking in Providence, Rhode Island
There was a great article published yesterday at Go Local Prov about the best places to kayak in Providence, Rhode Island. Having lived in Boston and visiting Rhode Island numerous times while I lived there I can say this is an absolutely beautiful part of the country and perfect for Kayaking. Like Boston, the weather [...]
Sad Week in Kayaking as Search Ends in Canada, Continues in Nashville
This has been a sad week in the kayaking world as a search for two missing kayakers in Sooke, British Columbia, Canada was called-off yesterday. The kayakers, two contract workers in their 20′s went missing on September 27th and while their kayaks were recovered in short order, the search for the two men was called-off [...]
Kayaker Missing in Nashville: Search Continues Today
A Nashville surgeon went kayaking around 7:00PM last Sunday night on Center Hill Lake in the Hurricane Bridge Recreation Area. He told his wife he would be home by dinner and by 1:00AM after he still hadn’t returned his wife decided to alert the authorities. (image from anoldent) By 2:00AM authorities in Tennessee had begun [...]
Kayaking Up Okanagan River from Skaha Lake towards Okanagan Lake Sept23/11
Kayaking up Okanagan River Sept23/11
My Favorite Kayak Launch Fails
Launching your kayak mean anything from carefully putting your kayak into the water on level ground to tipping off a high rock. Either way the idea is the same, getting your kayak from dry land into the water. Most launches are simple and have very little chance of failure, however more extreme kayakers like to [...]
Kayaking in the Everglades
There’s one kayaking destination I’ve been wanting to visit for quite some time now – the Everglades. Visiting the Everglades is what I think is probably as close as you can get to kayaking on the Amazon. I like the idea of being surrounded by nature and venturing deep into the wilderness. In most cases [...]
