Archive | May, 2008

Paddlers, Water Balloons, and the Cops

8 May

“Throwing water balloons at Naples canoe race could result in charges.” The headline piqued our curiosity. The three paragraph Naples Daily News story that followed, HERE, warned that if injuries occurred at this Saturday’s Great Dock Canoe Race as a result of a thrown water balloon, criminal charges could be filed. The story left, for […]

Olson’s Listening Point on National Register

7 May

Listening Point, the lake-shore property near Ely, Minnesota owned by nature writer and paddler Sigurd Olson, has just been added to the National Register of Historic Places, according to THIS news story. The rugged 30-acre property on Burntside Lake is currently owned by the Listening Point Foundation. Olson, who is well-known to paddlers and nature […]

Ancient Sea-Going Canoe Found in Florida Muck

5 May

The only prehistoric sea-going canoe ever found in Florida continues to rest in the muck of Weedon Island near St. Petersburg, as it has for a long, long time. According to THIS Suncoast News story, the buried relic was once a 45-foot-long canoe that allowed the local Native American culture that carved the boat to ply the coastal […]

Sevareid’s Example Still Sending Paddlers North

2 May

It’s been 78 years since Eric Sevareid and Walter Port pushed their 18-foot cruiser canoe off the Mississippi River’s banks in Minneapolis and into the waters that would ultimately take them to Hudson’s Bay. On the trip, famously recounted in Sevareid’s book Canoeing with the Cree, the newly-minted high school graduates paddled some 2,200 miles from […]