Inspiring Travel Writing About Kayaking & Rafting: Page 2 of 2

Before You Die: Sea Kayak Tierra del Fuego-Here | Steve Jermanok | Argentina | Tierra del Fuego

"At South America's southernmost islands, the glacier-crusted Charles Darwin Range rises 8,000 feet straight out of the ice-floe studded fjords, shielding paddlers from the wind, and there's nobody else except fishermen."

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Black Mountains - Canoeing the River Wye | Rupert Isaacson | United Kingdom | Wales

"Kayaking - the art of using one’s bum to balance a plastic egg cup that has a mind of its own, in turbulent, dangerous water. 'Roll those wrists as you paddle and you’ll keep a straight line,' the instructor had said"

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Before You Die: The Haunting Call of the Loon | Rory MacLean | Canada | Ontario | Lake Superior

"Canada: Hear at dawn the solitary, haunting call of the loon, Canada's Great Northern Diver. Quetico is an 1800 square mile wilderness park of 600 lakes and a thousand tangled rivers to the west of Lake Superior. I love to canoe across the water'..."

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Canoeing on the Charente River | Andrew Eames | France | Poitou-Charentes | La Rochelle

"It was intended to be an old-fashioned, 'Swallows and Amazons' sort of holiday, just me and my boy, a Canadian canoe, a tent, and a placid French river brimming with fish.I am delighted to say that, despite the potential for disaster, that was how..."

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