Canoeing, Kayaking activities in North America
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St Augustine Charters
St Augustine Charters offers rentals from its Peterson Bay Kayak Center, as well as guided paddles. It does multiday excursions, too, involving paddling, trekking along state park trails, and camping at seaside sites.
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Bike & Canoe Hire, Go North Hostel
Bike & Canoe Hire, Go North Hostel hires mountain bikes for a day, as well as canoes for a day or a week. Go North Hostel can help with trip-planning and will transport you to and from rivers throughout the Interior.
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Puget Sound Kayak Company
This active organization, which is located on both Bainbridge and Vashon Islands, offers classes, clinics and guided trips; however, the future of the Vashon branch is unclear, as it was up for sale at the time of writing.
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Catemacoturs
On the malecón,Catemacoturs is a palapa hut that rents beat-down adventure gear: low-end mountain bikes, sit-on-top kayaks and pedal-boats. It also offers tours to waterfalls and the coast.
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Hum-Boats Sail, Canoe & Kayak Center
The Hum-Boats Sail, Canoe & Kayak Center , at Woodley Island Marina, rents kayaks and sailboats. They have lessons and tours (some dog-friendly), eco-tours, a water taxi, sailboat charters, sunset sails and full-moon paddles.
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Eagle Canoe Rentals
Eagle Canoe Rentals, as you enter town, provides canoes for travel between Dawson City, Eagle and Circle. Pick up the boat at either the Dawson City River Hostel (867-993-6823) or at the shop in Eagle and then leave it in Circle.
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Umarike Expediciones
This internet-based outfitter offers guided mountain-bike adventure trips, rock-climbing and canyoning excursions and instruction. It rents out mountain bikes and camping gear, and offers maps and information for do-it-yourself trips.
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Paddling
Sixmile Creek is serious white water, with thrilling - and dangerous - rapids through deep gorges that survivors describe as 'the best roller coaster in Alaska.' The first two canyons are rated Class IV; the third canyon is a big, bad Class V.
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Kayaking
For a day of kayaking depart from Klawock and paddle into Big Salt Lake, where the water is calm and the birding is excellent. Alaska Kustom Kayaks rents kayaks as well as canoes. It also offers transportation and guided day trips for kayakers.
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Southeast Sea Kayaks
Kayaking is the best way to experience the preserve. Ketchikan's Southeast Sea Kayaks offers a one-day guided paddle in which small groups and their kayaks are transported by boat to the fjords and back. It also has a five-day guided tour and rents kayaks.
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Plum Island Kayak
Rent a kayak and explore Plum Island on your own, or join one of several tours during the day (and night) exploring the islands, mud bars, salt marshes and shorelines. Expect to see lots of birds. Special moonlight paddles and trips to the Isle of Shoals are also popular.
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Essex River Basin Adventures
Explore the tidal estuaries of the Essex River with Essex River Basin Adventures. Tours include basic kayak instruction, as well as plenty of opportunities for bird-watching. Romantics will have a hard time choosing between a sunset paddle and a moonlight paddle.
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The Paddlin’ Shop
By all means, take advantage of the city’s lakes and 200 miles of trails. For rentals, try The Paddlin’ Shop for water-faring craft and Yellow Jersey for two-wheelers. Both are near Capitol Sq (three blocks and 10 blocks, respectively).
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Alaska Mountain Guides & Climbing School, Inc
This company, situated behind Sockeye Cycle, can get you out into the awesome local wilds for some fine adventure - be it sea kayaking, white-water rafting, alpine hiking, mountaineering, rock and ice climbing, or glacier skiing. Classes and trips are offered for all levels of ability.
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Silver Lake Campground
Silver Lake Campground is a commercial facility with sites, canoe rentals for Silver Lake, and other limited services - gas not being one of them. At Mile 14.5 you'll reach the access road to the trailheads for the Dixie Pass, Nugget and Kotsina Trails, across from the Strelna airstrip.
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Sunny Cove Sea Kayaking
Sunny Cove Sea Kayaking doesn't rent kayaks, but does arrange a multitude of different trips, including three-hour paddles in Resurrection Bay, full-day journeys in Aialik Bay, and excursions that combine a half-day of paddling with a salmon-bake lunch on Fox Island and a Kenai Fjords cruise.
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South Bridge Boat House
A mile west of Monument Sq, South Bridge Boat House rents canoes for cruising the Concord and Assabet Rivers. The favorite route is downstream to Old North Bridge, and back past the many fine riverside houses and the campus of prestigious Concord Academy – a paddle of about two hours.
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Bike & Canoe Hire, Alaska Outdoor Rentals & Guides
Bike & Canoe Hire, Alaska Outdoor Rentals & Guides is centrally located on the river behind Pioneer Park and rents mountain bikes for a day. Alaska Outdoor Rentals & Guides also will set you up with a canoe and pick you up at downstream locations like Pike's Landing or the Pump House Restaurant.
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Descanso Beach Ocean Sports
Descanso Beach Ocean Sports rents snorkeling gear and kayaks, and also runs guided kayaking tours and kayak camping trips. Paddling out from here quickly gets you away from the sun-worshipping hordes and to the quiet coves of Catalina's rocky coastline. This is some of the finest kayaking anywhere in Southern California.
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Aleutian Adventure Sports
The many protected harbors, bays and islands of Unalaska Island make for ideal sea-kayaking conditions. The scenery is stunning and the wildlife plentiful. It is possible to encounter Steller's sea lions, sea otters and harbor porpoises. Aleutian Adventure Sports has single/double kayak rentals for around US$69/$89 per day.
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Viking Travel
For a large selection of area tours, head to Viking Travel, which acts as a clearinghouse for just about every tour in town. Possibilities include an easy four-hour kayak trip around the harbor, a four-hour boat tour to LeConte Glacier, an eight-hour whale-watching tour and a helicopter flightseeing tour with a glacier walk.
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Conexión a la Avéntura
Conexión a la Avéntura offers numerous outdoor trips all over the region, including rock climbing and rappelling in Parque Nacional Cumbres de Majalco, kayaking the Río Conchos and sandboarding at Samalayuca Dunes. A nine-day Copper Canyon trip with four days of burro trekking costs US$1135 per person with four people.
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Birch Creek canoe route
The Birch Creek canoe route begins at Mile 94 of the Steese Hwy, where a short road leads down to a canoe launch on the creek. The wilderness trip is a 140-mile paddle to the exit point, at Mile 147 of the highway. The overall rating of the river is Class II, but there are some Class III and Class IV parts that require lining your canoe.
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Surfing & Kayaking
About three blocks south of St John's Pier, the end of A St has - as Florida goes - some mighty fine waves. For the lowdown on surf conditions, or to rent or buy a board or sink into the comfy couch in the screening room for a free surf film to inspire you, make a stop at Pit Surfshop. Owner/surfer Clint Richardson also rents kayaks and skimboards.
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LL Bean Outdoor Discovery Schools
In the warmer months LL Bean Outdoor Discovery Schools offers adventure courses aimed toward beginning and intermediate kayakers and fly-fishers. Full-day courses cost between US$95 and US$120, and you can also sign up for overnight camping-kayaking trips, or arrange for private lessons. Very short 'walk-on adventures' are available at their store location.
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