Our family was given a family pass to the Royal Ontario Museum. It’s a super cool place to wander around looking at the rare artifacts, dinosaurs, and stuffed mammoths. They even have a very nice bat cave that’s all dark and spooky. The only problem with the came is that it is always filled with screaming school kids on field trips. I’m so old.

Since the ROM is just down the street from my work, I often use the family pass to wander around over lunch. I always feel like Pierce Brosnan in The Thomas Crown Affair except that I’m not planning a major art heist (and I’m not rich).

Today I decided to take a look again at the First Peoples exhibit. In there, they have a nice little collection of canoes and kayaks. The photos below were taken by my iPhone but they will do the trick.

Guinness World Record headquarters had just made it official. Randy Fine from Palm Beach, Florida how holds the world record for the most number of kayak rolls in one session. On June 14, 2009 he started rolling and 2,018 rolls later he stopped. I’m assuming it was because he was dizzy.

This beats the last time he broke the record which was 18 years ago when he rolled 1,796 times.

The Coastguard in near Southhampton, UK is turning to the public for help after it was discovered that the five hour water and air search yesterday turned out to be a hoax.

They got a panic-stricken voice claiming that he was a canoeist near the Isle of Wight and he was drowning.

Authorities believe he is the same gentleman who called in several other hoaxes in the same area over the past couple of months.

Map Sherpa has been very kind to offer to help sponsor our upcoming Georgian Bay Storm Gathering by sending along two custom printed maps that we will be using as door prizes for the event.

If you haven’t heard of Map Sherpa before, they are an online company which allows you to print custom Canadian topographic maps. Through the online service, you can drop in lines, points of interest or text then save the custom map to a pdf for home printing. For a bit more cash you can create poster sized maps and get them printed to regular or water proof paper. I recently wrote about them a couple of weeks ago.

For our custom map of Georgian Bay, we decided to highlight several paddling points of interest in and around Parry Sound that would be of interest to paddlers.

We went for a quick family camping trip to Awenda Provincial Park this past weekend. It was the same location that went to this past summer and like before we brought several different families along for fun.

The weather this time was much cooler of course because it was October and it rained about 80% of the weekend. That was ok as we were well prepared with raincoats and keys to the car to run into town to see a movie Saturday afternoon during the worst of it. We know how to rough it.