Water means getting
wet and that is no sport while there should be better means to enjoy water. There
are fantastic places on planet earth where we can spend holidays doing kayaking
along with beautiful harmless sharks and enjoy snorkeling along with turtles. The
time passed there would be cherished and you would love to visit again.
1. SILFRA FOR SNORKELING IN ICELAND
Silfra is the famous
spot in Iceland that is ideal for snorkeling lovers. The place is unique because
of crack in fissure that runs between the America and nearby shores. The precise
location of the place keeps changing as the tectonic plates shift each year. The
stunning clear water has lot of clarity and vision is as far as 100 meters. When
you see oceanic creatures around, you feel like being in another world and that
is all remarkable.
Silfra is the place
that offers the crystal clear visibility throughout the world. That is so clear
that if we compare crystal, the crystal will look cloudy. Being a part of Iceland,
the temperature in Silfra remains as low as 3°C with pure water around – glaciers
took like 2000 years to fill the place drip by drip pacing slow through lava fields.
In reality, the meaningful combination of various factors creates such a superb
clarity that visitors report having experienced vertigo on immersing in the water.
This is a sensation of whirling feeling a loss of balance that is mainly associated
while looking down from a great height. One feels like astronauts suspended over
a gorge that feels like dropping away into the Earth center. “Diving Iceland” is
an organization that organizes snorkeling specialized trips for Silfra.
2. sea KAYAKING at PRINCE WILLIAM SOUND, ALASKA
Glaciers are superb
and gigantic water storages that Mother Nature has formed on earth. The place is
a great natural reserve for ocean life showing its prominence to the fullest while
doing sea kayaking in and around Prince William Sound. You will come across varied
natural views of marine life. Seals would be resting lazily around on some icebergs
near the glaciers; sea otters would be swimming in the frosty waters. These sea
otters have the super thick fur protection that made Russian traders back in
18th century to hunt them for bucks and partly colonise Alaska. If you happen to
dive deep, there are pods of orcas that keep cruising the waterways finding seals
- their food. Have a look on some of the humpback whales too, they get together
in scattered groups and breach fabulously on occasion. You need to keep your water
proof camera ready and handy to capture the rare and awaited scenes.
The place is a fit
spot for simple gliding around the usually calm seas around fjords, the place where
cliffs are covered in Sitka spruce as well as Douglas fir would rise prominently
steep from the depths. To feel the fullest of this environment, one should spend
time to feel the full environment of the area while staying in a Forest Service
cabin or make a camp site out on a any beach or even being on a campsite in any
state marine parks.
Alaska Sea Kayakers
have information through phone +1 907/472-2534 or website: http://www.alaskaseakayakers.com), in Whittier
for rental sea kayaks and guided trips for the day and more.
3. CABARETE of DOMINICAN REPUBLIC is ideal
for KITEBOARDING
Enthusiastic kiters
come here from all parts of the world in groups. The place is a gathering of
many small and big island at Caribbean harbor of Cabarete towards the north towards
Dominican Republic. Some stay long time, some remain going here and there on the
beach at a place where kiteboarding is the main sport, and others just visit on
weekends between as the weather permits.
That is all because
all factors keep favouring the kiters and those who love kiteboarding. Winds blow
steadily from east towards west, permitting easy way out towards off the harbour
reefs and then brings back again to shore. While at the reef away in ocean, the
regular and expert surfers do enjoy riding on waves here while performing tricks
together with some incredibly brave and worth watching jumps. The reef too, covers
the waters inshore making kiteboarding favourable during all weathers except when
winter is rough and the water remains quiet. The kiteboarding people have almost
left the main village for the living of windsurfers and the shifted to west to famously
known Kite Beach. The theme of the place has altogether changed in past 15 years.
The place had turned out to be a paradise for kiteboarders and wind worshippers
together with those who love outdoors and night life. People keep themselves busy
with bonfires along coastal side till late night or till early mornings.
Puerto Plata, an international
airport is like 20km towards the west side of Cabarete. The main town has sales
and rental places for equipment related to kiteboarding and windsurfing. The related
people have established schools for the expertise and offices along the main road
of the city.
4. EXUMAS, BAHAMAS ensures excellent SEA KAYAKING
“Wilderness” one
can say, is the perfectly fit word for Bahamas but the place is famous for rum cocktails
in big modern hotels arranging limbo contests. The place is also a home for luxury
cruises from and to various uninhabited islands. The Bahamas official name is the
Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an island country of the Lucayan Archipelago that consists of
more than 700 islands, islets and cays in the Atlantic Ocean. The place is towards north of Cuba southeast of Florida, USA
Water, ocean, picturesque beach belts an dolt of money and taste, all compel
a visitor to opt for water sports and outdoor enjoyment on beaches and mainly doing
sea kayaking.
There is The Exuma
Land together with Sea Park situated in the middle of the cays making an excellent
place to start for boating and sports. The ride begins right at dawn at the time
when the sea is smooth then turns in pinkish shade. The relaxed morning hours may
be spent wonderfully paddling into clear blue waters benignly lit in sun from beneath
by the upcoming sunlight reflected off quite a dazzling white sandy sea bottom that
is packed with lush and gorgeous undersea gardens made of vegetation, coral reefs
and a wealth of tropical fish. Around midday one can opt for a break, on sand resting
for a picnic arranged under a palm tree. The scene is all calm and mesmerizing to
snorkel over bright coloured thickets of coral, that marvels at the inviting colours
and beautiful mixed patterns made by moving fish when they playfully dart through
the waving sea.
The place has a transport hub situated in Exuma Cays / Staniel Cay having various means to travel and conveniently reach Nassau and other hubs for trips that depart from Great Exuma. You can even fly into George Town direct from Florida. Local offices for excursion and trip management have more than several options to offer fitting into visitors need.
5. BONAIRE is place to SNORKEL WITH TURTLES
Bonaire is an
island in the Leeward Antilles in the Caribbean Sea. The place forms the group known as
the ABC islands that is situated
off the north coast of South America close to the western part of
Venezuela. Its seas are crystal clear inviting the sea lovers to spend their
time in the clearly see-through and blue waters that have unmatching scenes and
behaviour within the aquatic world. Beauty and attraction of the place is its immense
schools which is a natural collection of many tropical fish in extremely
strange shape, colour and size. These fish swim alongside dolphins and sea turtles
in and about the most imposing sponge gardens and the coral that are available in
coral famous Caribbean. BONAIRE is a boomerang-shaped tiny island situated
around 80km towards north side of Venezuela having a well planned marine park
since 1979.
The underwater
life around BONAIRE is inviting and charming as you can hear the non-stop grinding
of parrotfish that grazes the algae that keeps growing on those coral heads. The
attraction becomes a surprise when a strange looking group of reef fish jumps out
from their hiding behind the delicate mix of stands of soft as well as hard corals.
The attracting schools of brightly coloured butterfly fish, damselfish and angelfish
keep swimming in and out of the crevices reaching between the growing area of staghorn
and elkhorn corals. Under the sea, many meters below, there are enjoyable purple
colour sea fans and the limbs of anemones that take you to and fro while the swift
current in sea pushes you along. More information on snorkeling is available
on website: http://www.infobonaire.com
6. CORTÉS invites you for SEA KAYAKING IN MEXICO
Sea kayaking
people are always attracted to go to the remote, ruggedly lovely Baja coastline.
They have good reasons to be there too. The Sea of Cortés has quite calm waters
that help for easy surfing and smooth paddling. There are hundreds of virgin coves,
unpopulated islands and miles of grown mangrove-lined inlets groom ocean life
turtles, sealions, and nesting birds. There will be dolphins, coral reefs, grey
whales and like more than 600 fish species that you will notice as you glide through
volcanic caves, calm lagoons and natural arches.
You need to keep
the snorkeling gear handy – if you are tired of the hillside scenery, you may
opt for an even more remarkable underwater life. Breeding colony of rooks
that is typically seen being a collection of nests high in a bunch of trees. Regarding
sealions populated island coasts, and in case you reach there slowly and
carefully, the pups can be quite playful, even copying underwater movements etc.
Going back to shore, camping on white sand beaches and eating freshly prepared
raw fish that is citrus-marinated while enjoying a smooth sunset, you’ll have enough
time to enjoy some of the peaceful and quiet moments before you plan your next
activity. There are several tour operators in La Paz and Loreto are there to
guide you for accommodation, equipment rentals and other activities including
being an independent kayaker.
7. THAILAND welcomes for PADDLING INTO LAGOONS
Thailand is altogether
a different and amazing world that is full of surprises and adventure. People
are friendly and love to help the visitors looking after them well to the
fullest. The first arrival of visitor is always full of laugh and delight. The
guides know how to handle new arriving guests and keep their interests alive
and awakening. They might take you to unknown places just for fun and
enjoyment. There are many dark sea caves filled with bats and as the canoe
proceeds further, it immediately sails into open sun giving sudden squinted
entering a lagoon never seen before. A lagoon is basically shallow
body of water that is separated from some larger body of water dividing both
by barrier islands or even reefs. There are two types of lagoons, atoll lagoons and coastal lagoons. They even
occur on gravel and mixed-sand coastlines.
There are tidal
lagoons as well which are fully filled with ocean water, invisible to passing vessels,
these caves have no roof hidden within the center of solid looking limestone islands.
These can be accessed only at specific tides and only in special size sea canoes
that are small enough to slip beneath or between rocky overhangs that are
low-lying. Inside of these collapsed caves is an extra ordinary world which is protected
from the open cove by a ring of cliffs hung along with primeval-looking series
of inverted cycads, lianas, twisted bonsai palms, tangled ferns and miniature screw
pines. A place is Phang Nga Bay that covers around 400 sq kms of coastal line between
Krabi and Phuket and John Gray’s Sea Canoe manages sea-canoeing trips operator around
the bay. Their website is http://www.johngray-seacanoe.com for more
information.
8. SHARK BAY, AUSTRALIA is also good for
SEA KAYAKING
One can have rich
dolphin experience at Shark Bay that is situated on the northwest coast of
Western Australia around The Peron Peninsula. Moreover, the resort on beachside
at Monkey Mia has also become very popular. This is a UNESCO-listed reserve and
famous for enjoying Flipper and the family, and because of the sheltered
conditions, it makes the Shark Bay an area ideal for doing sea kayaking
activity.
The area is both
deadly and friendly. It is deadly because of tiger sharks far in open sea. Mother
nature feeds them well at their place so they do not bother to come into
shallow waters. The shallow waters have baby sharks that are less than a meter
long. As you see your kayak being followed by rays that are the size of a tablecloth,
then you be sure of these baby sharks. These baby sharks would live here as
long as they need nursery care. Later they grow up to join their elders in open
seas. Large turtles would also be friendly with your kayak passing under that
and swimming along it playfully. You can visit http://www.sharkbay.org for more information.
9.
ORCAS, the cold place in norway is another spot for SNORKELING
Once you decide
to do snorkeling in presence of killer whales then Norway is the place where
you can do it safely. The scientists and researchers point out that these
whales do not attract to prey as big as human beings. Their target is much
larger so that keeps humans safe while snorkeling. Interestingly the killer whales northern Norway
opt for eating fish only.
Prime orca-viewing
(watching killer whales) time starts from October and continues till January.
This is the time when , when migrating fish groups of herring attract as many as
600–700 killer whales to Tysfjord in north of Norway. One can also see them feed.
Norway’s orcas are experts for using fishing technique which they call as “carousel
feeding”. The experts manage to herd the unsuspecting herring attracting them
into a tight ball by using air bubbles like a net, they slap the ball using their
tails for stunning 10-15 fish at a time. They scoff them later one by one. It
is definitely cold out there but the experts are fully prepared with their dry suits
and warm inner suits using professional mask and gloves together with booties
etc. The scene is all dramatic and challenging when you see North Atlantic
surface surrounded by a few fully grown gigantic whales weighing like five-tons
each. But that is the challenge, either you stay firm to face or you are eaten
by them like dinner.
Tysfjord has some
tourist offices that manage snorkeling safaris during months like October to mid
of January charging per person. More updates are on website http://www.tysfjord-turistsenter.no
10.
QUÉBEC MINGAN ARCHIPELAGO IN CANADA HAS SEA KAYAKING
As you consult a
sea map and see the Mingan Archipelago would be stretching like 150 kilometres from
the Longue-Pointe-de-Mingan till Aguanish. This state of affairs feels like biscuit
crumbs have fallen scattered around in the Gulf of St Lawrence. But when you
opt to do sea kayaking, you would be cruising through these channels separating
around forty islands with no population and there are around one thousand big
and small islets and reefs. The place is altogether a blessing for those who
look for solitude in sea. There are tall monolith rocks around the bays and
from the distance as if people are standing. As you would be in you kayak, you
will be mesmerized with clear water under you and beneath that clear water you
can have a clear view of sea floor where several beautiful things wait for the
onlookers. As you go around the place, you won’t believe that these are the waters
that also feed those largest whales in seas known as blue whales and then other
species found here are minke whales, fin whales and beluga whales and even humpback
whales – all you need to do is to keep watching the horizon for the gigantic
water and vapor puff that whales blow when they come to surface.
Story does not
conclude till you watch clear water under you magnifying what nature has placed
on sea bed. There are sea stars in bright orange colour, urchins in deep red and
then lime green sea weeds called kelp that crust the floor of sea beneath you, these
are mesmerizing wonders of mother nature that keep you about the dynamics and
uniqueness of the places. More of beauty comes up when sun starts setting
giving these waters purple and pink colour, you need to move to an island for
your camp while there are some campsites on islands too. You may enjoy camp
fire as you close the day and as the sun goes down, you may also hope to see a
whale against the sun hiding in horizon. There are people at Expédition Agaguk situated
in Havre-Saint-Pierre who can be contacted on phone 418 / 538 1588 for equipment
rentals and guided tours around these places.
11.
TATSHENSHINI IN YUKON INVITES YOU FOR RAFTING
Tatshenshini River
waters are silt-laden and those waters always invite people for rafting. The
best and the most wonderful part of river course stretches up to around 213km passing
through mid of St Elias Mountains extending from the south of Yukon across flowing
to north side of British Columbia and then falls into the magnificent Gulf of Alaska.
The place is full of beautiful nature around where you won’t miss those grizzly
bears lumbering along stony river beds and the greyish white marmots that scramble
up along the gravel slopes and then looking at the water you find gatherings of
shiny salmons that swim here and there in those murky waters.
The expedition
may stretch like ten days which takes start from small place known as Dalton Post
at Yukon and concludes at Dry Bay in Alaska. The place has a 200 years history
when the river was a travel way for the people. The place is famous for territory
prospectors who migrated and were labelled as Klondike Gold Rush.
The Klondike Gold Rush had been a famous migration as much as estimated
100,000 prospectors moving to Klondike region in Yukon between years 1896
and 1899. The trails of that migration have diminished with time and looks like
as if the whole place remains all virgin and untouched. The natural beauties
are shared by Kluane National Park in Canada and places like British Columbia’s
Tatshenshini Provincial Park and the Kluane Wildlife Sanctuary, Yukon and a
part covered by US Glacier Bay National Park. As you travel, you will see mountain
canyons that are amazingly steep-sided and come across the rapids then you will
cross those high and sharp cliffs as well as thick untouched wilderness. Later
you may feel the touch of icebergs that are as old as 10,000 years. This river
passage is unique because of its route being the biggest non-polar ice field
throughout the world. Tatshenshini Expediting are the people in Whitehorse who
may be contacted on phone 867/633-2742 or they are available on website http://www.tatshenshiniyukon.com for tour package
and trip and expeditions etc.
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