I Love Paddling

In the Pacific Northwest each summer, tribal members from First Nations all along the coast paddle ornate canoes to a common destination for a festival of “healing, hope, happiness, honor and hospitality.” This year, as many as 80 traditional, ocean-going canoes, from a variety of canoe cultures and nations, will make a two-week journey to […]

The Honolulu-based Polynesian Voyaging Society is contemplating a three-year, around the world paddle using the group’s 62-foot-long, double-hulled voyaging canoe, the Hokule’a. If undertaken, the expedition, according to THIS Honolulu Star Bulletin story, would travel west from Hawaii through the South Pacific, pass north of Australia en route to the Suez Canal, cross the Mediterranean Sea […]

In a follow-up to a story we noted, HERE, back in December and that the British press has thoroughly enjoyed, John Darwin, the British man who was thought to have perished in a canoeing accident in 2002, has now admitted faking his death. Darwin pleaded guilty to seven counts of obtaining cash by deception and […]

The American Canoe Association, a non-profit organization representing U.S. canoeists and kayakers, is advocating reform of federal mining laws as a way of protecting America’s top paddling destinations. Citing mining activity that it says threatens such popular paddling locales as Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, Idaho’s  Boise River, and Oregon’s Rogue River, the organization is urging its […]

With the Midwest enduring some of the coldest, snowiest and stormiest winters in recent memory, it’s no wonder we aren’t recreating outdoors very much these days. But in the greater scheme of things, nobody’s getting out much at all, according to a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and […]

‘Tis the season for doing without in the Christian church, and for one environmentalist, this means forgoing his car for a canoe. Ben Clowney, along with his colleagues at the UK Christian development agency Tearfund, has undertaken a “carbon fast” for Lent, and from February 8 – 14 he sought to cut his carbon emissions […]

The canoe is making a splash in the art world on this side of the pond, as well as in the current Peter Doig show at London’s Tate Modern (see the Canoeing News post on Doig’s canoes HERE). Sally Thurlow, a Canadian sculptor, recently opened her exhibition “Canoe Dreamings” at the Tom Thomson Gallery in […]

Could your water bottle be a danger to you? Science Daily reports HERE that exposure to potentially harmful Bisphenol A (BPA) from polycarbonate plastic bottles is increased by the temperature of the liquid in the bottles, according to a University of Cincinnati study. The colorful, hard plastic water bottles popular with paddlers and other outdoor enthusiasts are […]