The adventures of a cedar canoe
Canoe the Netherlands
Enough! I say lets protest! If my message isn’t clear enough I am going over the boarder to Canada before it gets worst. I may have to paddle all the way back to the Netherlands! My family has two well trained project managers who can’t even get me a truck with a hitch on it due to current breakdown. I am modifying my Dutch bike and gearing it up so that I can tow my light trailer in case Don- deal is BAD!
There are 15 organized well marked routes and one of those routes went into the small medieval town of Nieuwpoort (Route 1a) located along the banks of the Lek River.
Just getting to the Biesbosch National Park is an adventure of sorts.
Instantly, we both knew this launch point was very shallow.
The weather was perfect, calm and clear blue sky. These are the type of days that make visitors think it is always sunny in the Netherlands with beautiful flowers and windmills.
The Alblas River runs through the South Holland delta region between the Waal and Lek Rivers and drains into the Noord River.
At the launch we sat for a moment together…
