A new experience ... good for you. By canoeing do you mean on the Grand River, or out on a lake? A river canoe has a flat keel so that it can be quickly shifted in white water, while a lake canoe has a deep keel so that it grabs the water enough to prevent the wind from negating all of your aggressive paddling. Taking a flat-keeled canoe on a lake in a breeze can get you in trouble because your body acts like a sail and can easily over-power your strokes taking you farther and farther out onto the inhospitable lake. A deep keeled canoe on a quick river can be too hard to steer because the rapid current has the keel locked as if on rails and your paddling is all for naught, as you careen wildly out of control at many knots.
I hope you had fun and learned some safety measures for canoeing, like ... never boogie in a canoe. Also, don't say dumb stuff like "where's the motor? Believe me, I know ... been there, done that. Now I can't get Boogie Fever out of my head. That's what Charline needs to try ... a video adventure taken from a canoe as it silently glides through the reeds.
