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Article: A taste of kayaking.
- Article from:
- Gulf Weekly
- Article date:
- May 7, 2009
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Gourmet kayaking ought to be an oxymoron. One activity sings of a starchy white cotton napkin, a hunk of buttery meat and the warm satisfaction of fine conversation and a full belly.
The other features mouthfuls of salt water, a perpetual twizzling of the shoulders and the terrifying dependence on your own puny musculature to pull yourself free from a capsized kayak after a close encounter with a supertanker.
There seems no obvious connection between a gourmet experience and a kayaking one, except in the land of implausible pairings: British Columbia.
The west coast Canadian province got the 'British' bit of its name from Queen Victoria and the ...