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The traditional canoe trip arranged by the Spare Time Activities Office of Noormarkku and Pomarkku and by the Pomarkku-Noormarkku Environmental Affairs Office was paddled from Veneskoski to Harjakoski on June 17th, 2006. The function of trip guide was fulfilled by Mr Timo Laine, a wilderness and nature guide with years of experience, whose expertise we did need, for most of the canoers were fresh beginners this time. A few whitewater sections added a pleasant amount of extra speed and excitement to our trip, but we still did manage to accomplish it without any significant damage, apart from a little sunburn, muscle aches, and one failed “Eskimo turn”. The trip length was about 13 km, and somewhere halfway, at Maja’s Bridge, before crossing the open lake surface of Kynäsjärvi, we held a refreshing coffee break. The objective of arranging canoe trips was to make new people familiar with the backwoods of canoeing as well as with the opportunities for outdoor activities offered by the surrounding vicinities, so hopefully some of the participants of this trip will grow fond of this just introduced, fine, and rewarding recreational sport. The way how the municipalities of Pomarkku and Noormarkku are situated near the water routes of the Karvianjoki region allows you to select several canoe route options of different difficulty levels, therefore there are extraordinarily good opportunities to do this recreational sport in the very adjacent vicinities. In this sport, it is worth to have some introductory training first, taking your time using, for example, rent equipment, and to invest in your own outfit only later, when you are already certain of the permanency of your spare time sport activity. For more info and links please ask other canoers
and trained wilderness guides such as wilderness and nature guide Timo
Laine; Translated from Finnish to English by Volford Péter |
