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#3 Pocomoke River Canoe Company – Kayak and Paddle in Flat Water

Pocomoke River Canoe Company in Snow Hill

100 Things to Do Between the Bridge and the Beach   Every year millions of people cross a bridge to travel to the Atlantic Beaches on Delmarva. It may be the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel or a bridge over the Delaware Canal. They may be headed to...

 
 

Eastern Neck Wildlife Refuge – A Reason to Visit the Shore in the Winter

Eastern Neck Wildlife Refuge – A Reason to Visit the Shore in the Winter

What do you do in the winter in an area touted as a warm weather destination?  Eastern Neck National Wildlife Refuge near Rock Hall, Maryland has more notoriety as winter destination than summer, even though it’s a 2285 acre island in a region known for fishing, boating, crabbing, canoeing and...

 
 

16 Hags Paddled the Transquaking River – One got Towed

16 Hags Paddled the Transquaking River – One got Towed

Our last Travel Hag Adventure was July 23rd when 15 hags and their hag-men met the outfitters where the Transquaking River is crossed by Drawbridge Road.  Travel hags came from the Eastern Shore, Washington DC and Pennsylvania.  About half those who met had little or no kayaking experience and most...

 
 

Haunted Paddle near Blackwater – Travel Hag Kayak Adventure

Red Winged Blackbird on the Transquaking River

  The Travel Hags will meet on Saturday, August 6, 2011 at the Drawbridge Road Crossing of the Transquaking River near Cambridge, MD. From there, outfitters from Blackwater Paddle and Peddle will launch fifteen to twenty women (and maybe a few men) in kayaks down the Transquaking River for a...

 
 

Transquaking River Paddle – What NOT to do on a Kayaking Trip

The Transquaking River

We have a Travel Hag Adventure planned for July 23rd to paddle the Transquaking River in Lower Dorchester County near Blackwater Wildlife Refuge.  A canal has been cut to connect two sections of the river making a five mile loop convenient for paddlers.  Since we have a few beginners on...

 
 

Travel Hag Campout at Janes Island – Great Success Despite the Storm

Travel Hags land on the beach at Janes Island

On a hot, sunny weekend in June, travel hags from Maryland and Delaware came together for a weekend of fun camping out in Janes Island State Park in Crisifeld, Maryland. We hitched up the r-pod camper to go the few short miles to Janes Island which is located at the...

 
 

Kayaking – How Difficult is it?

Kayaking – How Difficult is it?

This week, a friend interested in attending our Travel Hag Campout expressed hesitation about kayaking.  She’s over 50, never been kayaking and isn’t a strong swimmer.  Because I knew the trail at Janes Island was calm, and that she’d be with about a dozen paddlers – and would have all...

 
 

Happy Maryland Day – Top 10 Fun Things to Do in the Free State

Dan Burgoyne fly fishing at Swallow Falls State Park - Garrett County, Maryland

I’ve lived in Maryland all my life. She’s just a little over 10,000 square miles, but this state has all a visitor or native could want for recreation and fun. Two major cities – Baltimore and Washington, DC, offer unparalleled venues for culture, entertainment, food and art.  To the west...

 
 

Kayaking – a Great Sport for Fat Ladies

Kayaking on the Choptank River outside Cambridge, Maryland

For all you plus size women out there that are sick of looking at the bikini-clad girls on the beach swatting the volleyball, and you chunky girls who can’t keep up with the trim chics jogging, the cyclists whizzing by, the yoga freaks bending, the Pilates divas focus on their...

 
 

Bra + Kayaking = Major Discomfort

The older I get, the more I hate having to wear a bra. In fact, wearing a bra when you’re kayaking for hours gets old. Like many women, I am adept at unhooking the bra, sliding my arms out of the straps under my shirt and flinging the bra where-ever....

 
 

Winter Kayaking on Dividing Creek

Winter Kayaking on Dividing Creek

WORCESTER AND SOMERSET COUNTIES – MARYLAND Launch Site – Winter Quarters, Pocomoke River Dan and I decided to sack working around the house for the day and instead headed out to explore some of Maryland’s inviting flatwater. Even in the winter there are endless opportunities for kayak trips on the...

 
 
 
 
 

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