Illinois is home to the #1 state park in the Midwest Region. Starved Rock in Oglesby, IL is a fascinating hike, but from a kayak, the views are even better.
It's a shark-filled summer so far. Attacks in North Carolina (7 at last count), paddleboarders being harassed by great whites in California, and now, Captain Ben Chancey, off the coast of Stuart, Florida, doing battle from his kayak.
As I started to watch the video, my first thought was, "Oh, _____...
Add this to the (long) list of things that sound cool but I would never try myself. Three students at Maranatha Baptist University are kayak the length of the Rock River from the Horicon Marsh to its end at the Mississippi. That's 320 miles...