Celebration ahead! Event-planning is underway for 2032, the 200th Anniversary of the Rideau Canal’s completion. We jump the gun by six years, paddling the route
Category: Boats
Paddling, canoeing, kayaking, sailing, canal boating adventures
Sky, cliffs, river, mud, sand, camp: 12 days on the Green River
Up before dawn. Load the canoes, drift four hours on a lazy river through ever-deepening, colourful canyons. In the noonday sun, seek a sandbar where
The Obstacle Course: Narrowboating on the K&A Canal
Thirty-seven user-operated locks, nine swing bridges, two aqueducts – out and back. Protective swan-parents, oncoming boats, shallow water, strong winds, a hail storm: hurdles we
The Valentine’s Race
Us, in a race? Wonders never cease! On February 8 compete in a ten-kilometre double-hull outrigger canoe race through Victoria’s inner, middle, and outer harbours
Together on the Teslin
Our family is famous for record-breaking on wilderness canoe trips, and we have done it again: the Slowest-Known-Time for breaking camp (4.25 hours), the most
Roasting on a River
As Saskatchewan swelters through a prolonged period of extreme heat, we canoe two sections of the South Saskatchewan River: the Chief Whitecap Waterway (134km, with
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