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Great photos TC. Thanks. Much more fun than my wet weekend in the city.

Yes, the things we did as kids. It's amazing we survived. I grew up at Abbotsford - Sydney. It's a great suburb on the Parramatta River. We used to make rafts to head off toward the harbour. Paddles? Who needs them? So the tide would take us and then when it was time to head home we would...

Just bought another canoe. A Bushranger, TC. And it's bright yellow, so I won't lose it. Bloody heavy - had to get the bloke next door to help me get the thing off the roof when I got home with it. But I drove all the way out to Lethbridge Park last night and it took me over an hour so...

I've been thinking about some sort of outrigger thing - or even just some flotation attached to each side. It's a dilemma: do I risk falling in that river, or do I put on some sissy flotation aids. Scott

I bought a canoe last week. Went looking for a canoe for the kids and found this one. $127.50 on ebay. Made by a bloke in the 70s. I saw it and felt like I had to save it. So I bought it and Sunday morning took it down to the local river. The river near me is the Cooks River - Wolli...

This will sound pretty lame, but we took the gang from work out to the Olympic whitewater course at Penrith a few years ago. We were in rafts, but there were canoes there, too. I had to work at it, but I managed to tip my raft over twice. The best thing was actually going down the whole course...

Thanks TC and silversands. I'll go looking for a Bushranger. On one of my Manning trips when I was about 19, a mate and went in a fibreglass canoe. It was autumn and a bit cool. And raining We weren't well prepared. Put a hole in the canoe late one afternoon. The only thing...

I've done a few trips - Shoalhaven and Manning - some years ago. Nothing too adventurous, but did manage to capsize. Coincidently, I'm looking for a canoe right now to take with us when we go camping so the kids can muck around in it. TC, I noticed those ones you have are plastic. That appeals...