Paddling Canada’s Great Lakes’ Coast
8 Jun
Canadian canoests Jonathan Pratt and Stephanie Park are spending the better part of their summer paddling from Tobermory, Ontario, on the northern tip of Lake Huron’s Bruce Penninsula, to Kingston, Ontario at the far eastern end of Lake Ontario.
But that’s not the half of it. It’s more like a third of it.
You see, the husband and wife team is in the final leg of a three-year expedition to paddle the Canadian Great Lakes coastline in its entirety. If all goes well this year, the pair that paddled by Detroit’s sister city Windsor, Ontario over the weekend, will complete the trip later this summer.
The Windsor Star just wrote THIS story about Pratt and Park.
The Waterloo, Ontario residents began the epic paddle in 2007 in Tobermory as well, but paddled counter-clockwise around Georgian Bay before canoeing along the north shore of Lake Superior. They ended that year’s paddling in Pukaskwa National Park.
Last year, the duo put the shore off of their left shoulders and paddled from the Canada/USA border at Pigeon River to the Michipicoten River near Wawa, Ontario. They also circumnavigated Lake Huron’s Manitoulin Island.
You can find maps of their travels HERE, on their Freshwater Dreams web site.
You can keep up with their travels, HERE, via their Find Me Spot page, and, HERE, via their online journal.
Photo: Park (left) and Pratt, courtesy of Freshwater Dreams.
