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2025 Fundy Mid-life Crisis – A Wild Goats Adventure

2025-11-28T07:18:13-04:00

2025 Fundy Mid-Life Crisis - A Wild Goats Adventure by Victor Wright Last year's trip was an epic 120km Kayak Trip from the Bay of Fundy in Parrsboro NS to the Northumberland Straight in Tidnish NS encompassing historic Native Trading Routes and the Ship Railway engineering wonder. What would the Wild Goats do this year for an adventure??? May 2025- Wild Goats team members, Matt Chitty, and Victor Wright meet in Fenwick NS to discuss a new Multisport Adventure. What went through their heads during this meeting was a little disturbing and challenging! A plan was developed to do the [...]

2025 Fundy Mid-life Crisis – A Wild Goats Adventure2025-11-28T07:18:13-04:00

Solo on the Shelburne: When Plans Break and Canoes Bend

2025-07-04T15:57:40-03:00

Solo on the Shelburne: When Plans Break and Canoes Bend by Timothy O'Brien In 2023, my summer vacation plans were cancelled at the last minute, so I decided to paddle the Tent Dwellers Loop from Kejimkujik National Park, down the Shelburne River, across Lake Rossignol and up the Mersey River back to Keji. I added a run up the Shelburne to Cofan Cabin and skipped the side trip to Tobeatic Lake. Due to the short notice, I did this trip as a solo and I did extra risk mitigation, including the decision to not [...]

Solo on the Shelburne: When Plans Break and Canoes Bend2025-07-04T15:57:40-03:00

CONFESSIONS OF A KNOW-IT-ALL

2025-07-04T21:26:36-03:00

CONFESSIONS OF A KNOW-IT-ALL By Sheena Masson May 1990  This story  previously appeared in shunpiking magazine (1996), and in Paddle Quest (2000), a collection of paddling stories from across Canada.  It was a warm day in early May and Fred and I had just put in on the Waughs River near Tatamagouche in northern Nova Scotia. The upper Waughs is too stony to paddle in the summer but in spring it's a two hour stretch of Class One and Class Two rapids, ledges and standing waves. Nothing major - just a bit of spring tonic for a couple of sometime [...]

CONFESSIONS OF A KNOW-IT-ALL2025-07-04T21:26:36-03:00

Paddle Without Barriers #2

2025-05-15T17:49:40-03:00

How to get someone into a kayak who uses a wheelchair by Pauline Halstead Barriers, barriers and more barriers.  For today, I will only talk about the physical barriers. Imagine a keen adaptive paddler, patiently waiting in their wheelchair, imagining what floating on the water will be like.   What comes first - the transfer on the beach or by the water?  If by the water, how to get the person in the wheelchair across the beach?  These days, there are many options to do this.  But, back then, it was a head-scratching challenge.  At that time, Dee did not [...]

Paddle Without Barriers #22025-05-15T17:49:40-03:00

Cloud Lake Wilderness Area Solo Canoe Trip

2025-05-15T17:51:23-03:00

Cloud Lake Wilderness Area solo canoe trip with some added elements of surprise. by Shannon Burt It’s Summer, and I’m sitting on a rock in a small inlet on Frog Lake under the light of my headlamp. The drone of a helicopter moving beyond my line of trees breaks the backcountry silence in an evening punctuated by change. About an hour earlier I was being threatened by rumbling thunder and eminent rain. What’s next? To my mind, a chopper doesn’t usually fly at night unless something’s wrong. Noticing its bright searchlight, and the frequent though short passes, they’re looking [...]

Cloud Lake Wilderness Area Solo Canoe Trip2025-05-15T17:51:23-03:00

March Break paddling in Florida

2024-12-07T21:09:55-04:00

March Break paddling in Florida by David Lewis Marathon paddling means getting between points A and B in the shortest time possible by paddling. The Nova Scotia Marathon Canoe Association, was the sanctioning body for all things marathon paddling in NS but due to lack of insurance and interest the association wound up in 2015. Their events included multiple classes for recreational canoe and kayak as well as marathon C1 and C2 boats at varying distances up to 24 kms in length. Events were held province wide with most on the Dartmouth lakes, Valley and South Shore waterways. Since [...]

March Break paddling in Florida2024-12-07T21:09:55-04:00

Paddle Without Barriers

2024-12-09T12:52:45-04:00

By Pauline Halstead Fences, brick walls, doors - this is what most of us think of when the word "barrier" pops up.  Imagine kayakers leaping over a fence, racing to get up speed to jump over.  Quite the feat!  What about the barriers in our heads, the "I can't do that," or "They can't do that......?"  Almost 25 years ago, when I was working at an outdoor adventure show for a hiking company, a lady using a wheelchair stopped by and said she would like to go hiking.  Hmmm, I suggested that paddling might be a little easier for her.  With [...]

Paddle Without Barriers2024-12-09T12:52:45-04:00
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