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Need I say more? Strap a yoga mat to your fab sea kayak. Find a spot. Strike a pose. Notice the bright green yoga mat under the bungee on the back deck of my Maelstrom Vital 166 ? That's not a bed roll but maybe it could function as one under a sleeping bag. It doesn't get any better than this! I'm out shopping for Paddle to Yoga spots in the 1000 Islands region on the St. Lawrence River off the quaint little town of Gananoque in the province of Ontario in Canada . I'll never tire of it . . . shopping for great places to get out of the yoga studio and do some yoga outdoors once in a while. Don't get me wrong. I still love my yoga studios and teachers. But variety is the spice of life. Doing yoga in the outdoors is more invigorating. You really don't even need a mat to paddle to yoga. Just yourself and a sea kayak. Don't forget the paddle. Paddling to yoga really rocks. I love it and I'm going to keep doin' it! . . . Paddling to sp

Ever have someone really make your day with something so simple? Like one little innocent comment that really makes you laugh and think?  I just did. It made me wonder why we work so hard to have fun sometimes. I was out tooling around some water with my "skinny stick" (Greenland paddle) in a sweet sleek sea kayak when a guy in a parked houseboat sipping a beer with some friends called out, "Hey. What's that thing you're paddling with? The stick I use to stir my cake mix with is bigger than that!" "Ha! It's a Greenland paddle", I replied. "Can you get anywhere with that!?" "Yep!" "Why do you paddle with it!?" "Well, lots of reasons": "The long narrow blade of the Greenland paddle doesn't catch the wind like a big spoon, and spreads the pull on the water over a longer area. A big bladed paddle has a bigger pull on the water over a shorter wider area and puts more strain on your bod