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The trip leader will determine the minimum paddling skill and/or fitness level required to maintain safe conditions for all participants. A member’s participation will be at the discretion of the Trip Leader. In the event of any disputes arising during a trip, the Trip leaders decision will be consider final and binding. Use the right […]

“Hey Dave-When do you normally give up paddling for the season?” This was the question I put to David Johnson, one of the organizers of the Georgian Bay Stormgathering. “Well we go through to the end of January but by February it’s a bit too cold so we call it quits for February.” We were […]

What type of kayaking is right for you? Our club promotes Recreational Paddling, which is casual paddling, in calm water such as ponds, flat water rivers, lakes, protected ocean bays and salt marshes. Many paddlers use recreational kayaks for fishing or photography. It’s a perfect way to learn how to kayak. What is the right […]

One of kayaking’s greatest joys, is the ability to get close to wildlife by silently gliding in the water. One of nature’s beauties is the trumpeter swan. As the bird attempts to get airborne three things happen simultaneously; water sprays up from their rapidly churning webbed feet, their enormous outstretched wings ‘thump whump’ as it […]

The physical and emotional transition from living and sea-kayaking in a sub-tropical climate (the southwest coast of Florida) to the waters and winters of Southern Ontario was and continues to be a difficult one. Potentially the sea kayaking wasn’t so hard after all since the Inuit do it at a much higher Northern latitude. With […]