Look At These Beauties.

http://www.merrimackcanoes.com/index.html

We Got To Do This!

Theres a whole mgazine devoted to canoe and kayak sailing?
http://www.canoesailingmagazine.com/

or how about an ultralite handheld sail?
http://www.quiversail.com/quiversail/home.html

http://dory-man.blogspot.com

Small boat lovers will love the Dory-man.

The Dangers of Canoe Camping Deficiency.

Recently my doctor prescribed either a trip to the Caribbean or the sun equal to sitting in the stern of a canoe for a week or longer.

Canoe Camping Deficiency rivals all but schizophrenia in neural imbalance disorders. Symptoms include or can lead to depression, vitamin D deficiency, heart disease, chronic pain, Fibromyalgia, hypertension, arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease, obesity, PMS, Crohns Disease, cancer, MS and other autoimmune diseases.
The American Society of Anesthesiologists released a report in October of 2007 that stated approximately one in four patients who have chronic pain issues were also found to have experienced low levels of Canoe Camping.
According to the Canoe Camping Council, if you are someone who completely avoids the sun you will need to take approximately 4,000 units of Vitamin D per day. You would have to drink 40 glasses of milk a day or take 10 multivitamins a day to get the required amount of Canoe Camping.

the Saco Underbelly

Believe it or not, beyond the puking teens pissing from their canoes, there is still a loud quiet floating past the beaches and banks of the Saco River. When the sun begins to set on you, stretching the tops of trees across the river in shadow, the sun leaving you there in the dark with the river, there still exists a sense of timelessness.

Canoe The Glendale Narrows, L.A. River?

I remember climbing down the green rebar ladders, the ends of tree branches wrapped with old tee-shirts, doused in lighter fluid setting out to explore the tributary tunnels along Verdugo road in Glendale, kicking up water from the anemic trickle that is the LA river on a hot California summers day. Never did we think to lower boats down underneath the Glenoaks Bridge. Never did I expect to see the LA River in the May issue of Canoe and Kayak.

"A dozen intrepid Angelenos successfully navigated kayaks and canoes down the full length of the 52-mile L.A. River (from headwaters at Canoga Park to estuary in Long Beach) in a three-day exploratory expedition, demonstrating that the whole river merits a determination as a "traditional navigable water"

http://pr-usa.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=125188&Itemid=30

Biologist Heather Wylie hit with suspension over LA River kayak trip.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2008/10/remember-the-mu.html

http://www.peer.org/news/news_id.php?row_id=1117

http://www.the-la-river.blogspot.com/

photos by someone else

Just For The Love of a Creek

The plan was the Sawyer Pond "float & fish", two nights three days, in the cold of the white mountains, yanking trout from the fridgid water, smoking, drinking and melting over ourselves because of a campfire gourmet meal. Plans fail, desire doesn't.

Saturday morning I decided I needed a fix. I left my concerned and loving wife, huffed it to the white mountains, hiked a measley hike to a trail passing creek, hiked up the babble and slung my hammock, just for the love of a creek, just for the sound of moving water, not 200 feet from the trail, not 200 feet from a water source, illegal, totally illegal, and happy, furiously happy in the meat of solitude.

one good leg and a machette is all a man needs

fridge in a post hole

photos by iphone-atard

Look At The Hips on That!

photo by Bryan Harland

Mid April Packraft "Float & Fish" in The White Mountains

photoa by someone else

Late Afternoon, Early Spring, Afterwork Desires.

The Parker River

The put in

The portage
The Fish Ladder

The take out
Easy After Work Dusklight Float Photos By Rick Beaty

A Truly GREAT photo from the Saco River, ME

photo by Brayan Harland

The Macal River, Belize.

The Macal River is in the Cayo District of Western Belize. Canoeing through the Mayan Mountains is enchanting and other worldly. What a chill float. The stretch up river of the small town San Ignacio has caves full of bats, wild boars you can smell from the canoe hoofing through the bank trails and deep lush jungle. As it enters San Ignacio down on river left the town market is the perfect stop for "ah-oo-ten-tico" Belizian food. Try to find the "fo-we-chicken" its the peoples chicken, the national dish with rice and bean. "Belize it" or not, theres a killer Indian restaurant in the town of San Ignacio too.






photos by Rick & Robin Beaty

Yea! I'd Rather Be Down There!

The Rio Grand, South of Hispanola, New Mexico.

photos by Rick & Robin Beaty