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WOMEN'S KAYAK OPPORTUNITIES - SHORT TRIPS, TOURS, INSTRUCTION
The truth is, most of our clients are women. We don't know why more men don't come.
We are a convenient, scenic drive from Ottawa or Kingston (about an hour and a quarter), and about 3 hours from Toronto. Driving is on excellent, rolling, winding roads. Our home based business operates out of a log house on an island in the Mississippi River. No public lands and no public water access exist on the island.
Shopping, as a sideline after you've had your kayaking fun, can be found all around us. We're near Westport, another beautiful and scenic, short drive from here. On the approach to Westport from our base, you'll see a vista of the town, adjacent to its Westport Pond and the Big Rideau Lake, part of the Rideau canal system. Bring your walking shoes, "the card", and your shopping bag.
Sharbot Lake is just a jaunt of 15 minutes away, and it has a medical centre, drug store, grocery store, and again, fine views of sparkling Sharbot Lake as you approach it.
McDonald's Corners is a small hamlet with a general store, an agricultural hall, and is just a stone's throw from Dalhousie Lake. |
Women's kayak tours, trips, instruction. Bring friends, or come alone. |
Lanark Village is about 15 minutes east, and has an interesting history, and there always seems to be something new cropping up, business-wise.
Just south of Lanark village is Balderson. Balderson has become a very significant shopping stop. It's highway sign says it all: "Balderson - 'At the Crossroads of Good Taste".
Maberly is 15 minutes away, with its gift shop, take-out / drive-through coffee shop and ice cream bar. Palate pleasures include "organic" offerings from local farms, along with meals ranging from fish and chips to chef-prepared, 5-star dinners. Treasure hunt in its gift shop. Relax in its walled outdoor beer patio or in the superb ambience of its English style pub. It's all in one complex of very trendy timber frame and straw bale construction that has earned it the claim of being "Canada's Greenest Restaurant" (very environmentally and esthetically pleasing).
Please don't think you'll have to leave to eat. If you're an Adventure Agent guest, you may bring a picnic lunch and sit near the water's edge. :) Or sit in our rustic, shed-roofed, screened gazebo, where you can look down the river, maybe see some otters flopping around, a beaver or muskrat gliding by, or a great blue heron fishing at the shore. Read a few pages of your book. We have a futon and a wicker loveseat there, along with a mirror. Rent a canoe and drink in the scenery while you dine on your own prefered taste sensation.
Sometimes I get carried away with what's around us. It's not about racing off to shop 'til you drop. It's about a fun, short time in the beautiful outdoors near a place with a romantic name of Snow Road Station. It's about trying something new in a comfortable situation, on calm waters, near shelter.
Oh, and did mention Bed and Breakfast? In conjunction with your Adventure Agent experience, we have unpromoted, special hospitality spots we could tap into, once you're booked in with us, and we could direct you to the nearest spa, for the full treatment.
Oh, I keep remembering things. This area has more Canadian music stars per capita than likely anywhere else. We may as well call the area Juno, because of the number of Canadian Juno Music award winners who've chosen this to be their home. Did I mention that I also am a performer, gigging around the area?
So come for the kayak experience, but book-end it with some of the refinement that this unknown region is.
Make your own adventure. We're a small, home-based business, and we think you'll find the area and us to be a warm and friendly place to visit. Welcome to ... the wilderness?
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