Happy New Year Everyone... Wow the weather has been warm - almost makes me want to go canoeing... except I have a habit of falling in. This New Years' Eve and...
Happy 2004 to all. With the weather around Southern Ontario the way its been I can't help but thinking of paddling (however my skiing thoughts are taking a...
Yep I am still a member of this group but will not join where group paddling is concerned since I live in the Netherlands and at the moment can't use my legs....
Hello All! Just wanted to take this opportunity to introduce myself... I am and always have a lover of anything outdoors... Two Christmas' ago, I somewhat...
Congratulations with your fiance and truly romantic the way he proposed (is that the right word?). My wife sent me to a canoe club some years ago and now we...
I wonder if somebody could help me with a couple of links to sites showing and instruction about Canadian style paddling. I have tried free style donw here in...
Rudolf, Check the Indian Stroke at this link. Hope that's waht you're looking for. Regards, Paul http://www.gregcons.com/canoe/techniques_strokes.htm...
Hey everyone, So what's everyone up to? I know I've been on the quiet side lately. Mostly because I've been updating the graphical appearance of my site. If...
Becky Mason's video on Soloing (you can see it at my ste www.outdooradventurecanada.com - we don't sell it though) has a great demonstration of the Canadian...
... Lu and Paul, As I learned and use them, the Canadian and Indian are really two quite different strokes, as is mentioned the gregcons.com web page...
Lu, Please feel free to post any info you have re: the Canoe Museum. I first visited the collection when it was housed in a barn near Dorset, was up in...
Blackstone Lake is named for an Ojibwe Chief of that name, famous in our area for his last heroic trek, during the 1918 flu epidemic, in which he endeavoured...
I just can't let the entire month of April go by without there being at least one post here. We have beautiful weather here today, almost like summer, and...
Hi Paul I just pan to paddle somewhere around Amsterdam. I know nothing spectacular but belief me some places around our fair capital of the Netherlands are...
I'm down in the Niagara area. My only planned trip this year is for Killarney, as for just paddling around Georgian Bay, etc. I thought I'd just sort of take...
The Beaver River flows from Kimberley Ont. to Thornbury on Georgian Bay for 27 km with 3 portages. The lower section from Heathcote to Thornbury has some good...
The Canadian Canoe Museum has re-opened in Peterborough, if you've never been there, you should check it out. I'm going next week since I'll be in Bobcaygeon...
I just received an invite thru my e-mail to join this group, so I did. I'm reside in the States and at least twice a year do some paddling in your beautiful...
Hi Matt, and welcome: I've never done the Spanish River but I've heard it's great with a lot of navigable rapids, except for one set called the "Graveyard"? ...
A canoe for one person or two? $500 will get you an older but serviceable canoe from one of the better makers. Or $400 will get you a brand new Coleman plastic...
