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Some fifty-odd canoeists and kayakists collected on Lake Ontario last night to show some local water-based support for Canada's Olympic canoe and kayak teams.
The get-together, brainstormed over beers by Jeff Needham of the Complete Paddler and David Newland, included paddlers from the Harbourfront Canoe and Kayak Centre, The Complete Paddler, Canoe.ca, and the Virtual Voyageurs Canoe Club. The group congregated on the shore at 5:30 and spent two hours paddling around the lake and islands, stopping only when patriotism demanded it.
Newland, the newly-appointed Editor-in-Chief of fittingly-titled news site Canoe.ca, was hoping that the stunt would help Torontonians consider the beauty of their city, "rather than pining for the wilderness." For now, though, his biggest goal is using the SunMedia empire he's part of to get word of the paddle out to the athletes in Beijing. Someone should also tell Olympic silver medalist Jason Burnett that we fully intend to seek out a trampoline and jump on it ecstatically. For Canada.
Photo by Jeff Needham
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What a great evening.
HUGE thanks to Dave and the Harbourfront Crew (who do this all the time) for having us along, and to Jeff and the Complete Paddlers for making it real.
Paddling: pleasurable, positive, powerful patriotism.
In New York there are free (!) programs run by downtownboathouse.org and NYC Parks for canoeing and kayaking all along the Hudson River bank of Manhattan. It would be fantastic if Toronto had a similar program where one could just walk up to a dock, be handed a life jacket and a paddle, and then hop in a canoe or kayak for some paddling action. And did I mention the part about it being free? (Providing free access is a mandate of the city's lease to Downtown Boathouse for their boat storage, and they run the program with volunteers)