A variety of paddling photo galleries and videos from some of the kayaking travelogues and day trips featured here at Superior Paddling.
Photos
Three Sisters, Bay of Fundy
Known for the world’s highest tides, Fundy offers some of the most spectacular shoreline kayaking in North America.
Huron Islands
A daytrip to the small archipelago of the Huron Islands National Wildlife Refuge and Lighthouse
Pictured Rocks
Touring the towering painted cliffs of the National Lakeshore and nearby Grand Island
Thunder Bay
Paddling Ontario’s Pie Island, Sleeping Giant, the Rossport Islands, and Battle Island Lighthouse.
Manitou Islands
A couple of paddlers crosses from the mainland to camp on a pair of islands, visiting an historic village and farming community, touring an important Great Lakes lighthouse, and exploring a modern-day shipwreck.
Milwaukee Harbor
An other-worldly tour of this fog-shrouded urban port reveals an historic lighthouse, a classic Great Lakes schooner, and a personal encounter with a majestic lake freighter.
Pensacola Bay
Solitary paddling along the Gulf coast of Santa Rosa Island to the historic site of pre-Civil-War Fort Pickens, escorted by dolphins, sea turtles, jellyfish, and the Blue Angels.
Milwaukee South Shore Ice
A late-winter paddle along the outer breakwall offers a glimpse of dynamic, melting sculptures of frozen spray, ice, and snow.
Videos
Devils Island Sea Caves
These intricately carved Apostle Islands sea caves are fully exposed to the fury of of Lake Superior, and are often inaccessible due to dangerous waves.
Hurricane Sandy on Lake Michigan
There was no paddling to be had this day, but here’s a bit of video from the Milwaukee lakefront.
Pictured Rocks
A video tour of Lake Superior’s Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore with a few friends
Keweenaw Peninsula
A video tour of Lake Superior’s eastern Keweenaw Peninsula and a crossing to Manitou Island
Devils Elbow, Wisconsin Dells
A trio of sea-kayakers tries their hand at a bit of high and fast water on the Upper Wisconsin Dells, at a place called the Devils Elbow.
Surfing at Mosquito Beach
A bit of Lake Superior surf play at Mosquito Beach, Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore
Governors Island
An easy daypaddle along the sculpted sandstone cliffs of Lake Mendota’s Governors Island
Surfski Fun
A couple of sea kayakers try their hands at a very tippy Unlimited Class Offshore Racing surfski, with mixed results …