Kayaking
If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water – Loren Eiseley
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Quotations To Inspire Your Next Kayak Journey
Getting somewhere under your own power makes it real. Self-propelled travel carrying your moveable home with you as you go – whether by kayak, canoe, backpack or bicycle – connects you with an ancestral human experience repeated throughout history. Doing it at a slow enough pace to reach out and touch the world is far more rewarding than speeding along by train, touching only your seat upholstery. A train will get you quickly from A to B, but paddling lets you experience all the parts in between with all your senses.
Kayaking is high on adventure, low on cost. After covering the fixed cost of a fibreglass kayak, roof rack, and some basic camping gear, each day out kayaking can be…
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It Was Just a Kayaking Trip. Until It Upended Our Lives
We were only starting to move around again, packing our gear into the kayaks, when we heard the first huff of a blowhole, not far offshore. Jon was ecstatic. It seemed to him as if the animal were putting on a show, swimming playfully in the kelp, diving, resurfacing, then plowing its open mouth across the surface to feed.
Why He Kayaked Across the Atlantic at 70 (for the Third Time)
When Aleksander Doba kayaked into the port in Le Conquet, France, on Sept. 3, 2017, he had just completed his third — and by far most dangerous — solo trans-Atlantic kayak trip. He was a few days shy of his 71st birthday. He was unaccustomed to wearing pants. He’d been at sea 110 days, alone, having last touched land that May at New Jersey’s Barnegat Bay. The trip could have easily ended five days earlier, when Doba was just a few hundred feet off the British coast. But he had promised himself, when he left New Jersey, that he would kayak not just to Europe but to the Continent proper.
How Kayaking Can Help Boost Your Fitness
Bored of the same old gym routine? Fancy getting some fresh air while you exercise? Look no further than kayaking! Kayaking isn’t just a great way to enjoy the outdoors and have fun on the water. It comes with a ton of health benefits.
Is Kayaking A Good Workout? Yes! Here’s How It Can Improve Your Health
One of the keys to developing a healthier lifestyle is finding a physical activity you enjoy doing. Fun and excitement help mask unpleasant feelings you may experience as a result of the activity, and will make you more likely to participate in it more frequently. Can you say the same for spin class?
The Kayak Bucket List
Whether you’re a weekend recreational paddler, whitewater guide, or touring paddler we’re pretty sure you’ll find some inspiration in these tasty kayaking bucket list ideas. If you think you’ve done all there is to do in a kayak, I bet there is at least one thing you’ve not tried from our list of 13 things to do in a kayak.
Commuting By Kayak Has Multiple Benefits
Two New Jersey men have found a way around high gas prices and traffic jams. The mile long trip from Hoboken across the Hudson River to their Manhattan office takes about a half-hour to paddle. They also get their exercise in for the day.
Kayaking Is the Best Form of Stress Relief I've Found
"Kayaking is a way to exit the urban cacophony, completely and totally."
What Kayakers Can Teach Us About Living Well
Some plunge down waterfalls while others fish from their vessels, but kayakers have one thing in common: They all know a thing or two about leading a healthy lifestyle.
What Muscles Does Kayaking Work?
Many people believe that a very small range of muscles during canoeing-mainly the arms. This however, is false and as a qualified canoe coach, I can confirm that there are many muscles used while kayaking. If you feel like your arms are hurting the most, there may be something wrong with your beginning technique and I would advise you to ask your coach, instructor or a senior member why and how to improve your paddling style and technique.
Quotations To Inspire Your Next Kayak Journey
What strikes us most about the paddling community is both the variety of destinations to which they journey and the common psychological themes underpinning their adventures in the wild. This article is our attempt to capture these themes in the hope they might inspire you as they have us.
10 Health Benefits Of Kayaking
So why not participate in a much celebrated but often overlooked form of exercise like kayaking? – An excellent low impact activity that increases strength, improves aerobic fitness and adds to your flexibility. Learn how 10 health benefits of kayaking can make participating be fun.
15 Surprising Benefits of Kayaking - Physical and Mental, and More
Are you searching for a sport that will enable you to get out of your house more and improve both your physical and mental health? Kayaking can offer you all those, along with tons of enjoyment.
Kayaking Tips: 6 Benefits of Paddling for Exercise
What many people don’t realize, or rather may not consider, is that they can utilize a kayak for a daily exercise routine. The fact is, every time you go kayaking, you are essentially working out regardless of technique, pace or activity. Just like walking, jogging or running, you are using your heart and muscles, some of which you may not even know you are being activated.
The Best Kayaks for Fishing and Floating
Not much beats a day on the water in the heat of summer. In a kayak, you get an up-close view of the surrounding aquatic habitat and have the freedom to go where bigger boats can’t. Plus, without a noisy engine in tow, you have a better shot of scoping out wildlife or landing a prized catch.
The Top 10 Health Benefits of Kayaking
Do you want to see the world from a whole new angle? Take to the water! Grab a kayak and go exploring. Kayaking is great exercise and gives you an intimate view that really immerses you in nature.
Kayak Paddling
KayakPaddling.net is a Kayaking and Fishing magazine, online since 2006. We’ve been providing instructional information about kayaking with our free paddling animations.
Kayaker Guide
Take it easy! Forget searching hours for the perfect boat. We provide the best tips and guides to make you an expert at everything kayak!
Kayak Help
To make things simpler, and to get you out on the water quicker, we’ve put together a definitive resource for learning all about kayaking and picking out the best gear to fit your needs.
Paddle Pursuits
Our goal is to provide knowledge, training, and entertainment on all things paddling, with a focus on getting newbies out on the water.
Paddling Light
Paddlinglight.com is an online resource for paddlers. It offers information about lightweight canoe and kayak travel, how-to articles, trip reports, adventure stories, kayak and canoe plans, and reviews. We promote self-direction by emphasizing the do-it-yourself culture in the sport of paddling, and we believe growing paddlesport participation advances wilderness protection.
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Inspiring paddlesports participation through quality coverage of the people, places, adventures, boats and gear, trends and events that make paddling something you'll do for the rest of your life.
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