Canoeing/Kayaking

[Apotheosis]

well, not sure where most of you people live, but it's getting damn close to the right kinda weather for canoeing or kayaking.. I know I'm looking forward to it.

Myself, I try to get in a few short trips a year in, right. I am not talking about white water kayaking, just the kind where you can get in a boat, and spend a good day/half day in the river to yourself or with friends.

I have a place close to where I live where friends and I rent canoes pretty cheaply, and they drop us off up the river. It makes for a great day (especially with a few beers and a picnic)!

anyone else out there do this?

[DeV]

I don't know if I'd go as far as trying white water kayaking but I have been white water rafting, kayaking, and spent many a summer canoeing almost daily. My friend has a cabin up in Manitowish Waters, WI that I go to about every other summer. We'll usually take a canoe trip and camp out at a site off of one of the many connecting lakes up in the northern region. Always good times.

[peam]

I'd love to go kayaking. Do they make them for fat guys?

[Alfster]

Because I'm lazy, I spend my summers in a boat on the chain of lakes here in northern Wisconsin. I don't do the whole paddling thing and canoes get tippy as I get tipsy.

Although, a good float down the river is always fun in a tube.

[Jolena]

I've spent several summers canoeing down the rivers here where I live. We did that twice a year with my church group as a teen, plus my family did that as well. And now my young ones go canoeing with our family and friends. It's a lot of fun.

[Kuyuk]

Kayaking is great, same with canoeing; when I was in Idaho I canoed down a river that had some rapid and such, with 2 people in the canoe, 1 paddle in the canoe and 1 life jacket...naturally, I had the paddle and gave the lady the life jacket, and then proceeded to almost sink the canoe in a sinkhole and had to get dangerously pulled out by a motorboat because I was holding onto a tree for 10 minutes getting blasted with water; if I let go we were going straight into a rockface and going down down down.


I love canoeing and kayaking.


K.

[Killer Kitten]

Mike and I go every year for our anniversary. We stay overnight at a hotel and have a nice dinner out, then get up early the next morning and rent a canoe.

It's always fun, and if we go on a weekday we generally have the whole river to ourselves. Great for checking out the local fauna and for some real 'alone time'. We have the best conversations while paddling a canoe.

[Skirmisher]

Originally posted by peam
I'd love to go kayaking. Do they make them for fat guys?

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[Neildo]

Yeah, kayaking is awesome as hell. In the summer, I kayak all the time to Anacapa Island and sometimes take a boat trip to the other ones to explore the caves inside. Real fun.

- N

[Hips]

My family owns a house on a lake in Bremen, Maine, and we usually go up there once or twice a summer, and rent it out the rest of the time. We have two kayaks, a canoe, and a motor boat (no jet-skis yet, but I'm trying to convince my parents to get one, heh) and I looove taking a kayak out and "disappearing" for several hours. The scenery is really pretty and sometimes if I bring a friend we'll go fishing or pack a lunch to eat on one of the little islands there. Sometimes my dog is crazy and jumps in the kayak and comes along too, heh. I hate canoeing though, they tip too easily.

I've never done anything crazy like whitewater kayaking though, I hate whitewater rafting enough as it is. I had to put on a wetsuit when we went in Austria and it was so gross, bleh.

[isebumples]

its not ca-noe-ing, its ca-brew-ing. MMM BEER!

-Bumples player