{"id":773,"date":"2008-07-15T11:35:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-15T16:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=773"},"modified":"2018-11-13T05:11:48","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T00:11:48","slug":"answering-the-waters-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/answering-the-waters-call\/","title":{"rendered":"Answering the water&#8217;s call&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/lakewinnipeg.jpg\" alt=\"lakewinnipeg.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/deadslow.jpg\" alt=\"deadslow.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/redcanoe.jpg\" alt=\"redcanoe.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/bikepaddles.jpg\" alt=\"bikepaddles.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Winnipeg Beach, Manitoba<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Well, we finally launched my old canoe this past weekend\u2026 Ev\u2019s been living on the shores of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lake_Winnipeg\" target=\"_blank\">Lake Winnipeg<\/a> for five years now (it\u2019s the largest of Manitoba\u2019s 100,000 lakes, the 11th-largest freshwater lake in the world, and at 23,553 km\u00b2 [9,094 sq. miles] it\u2019s larger than both Israel and Slovenia) and we\u2019ve only been out on the open water a few times. Thanks to a special arrangement with Boundary Creek Marina, the old red Obukwin now has it\u2019s own exclusive mooring on the island in the middle of the harbor, allowing effortless access. (For any friends in the area\u2014if you care to use the canoe, just drop by Ev\u2019s first for the padlock key and paddles\u2014access to the island is across the dock-bridge you can see in the photo above).<\/p>\n<p>Amazing as it may sound, our canoe seems to be the only human-powered vessel in the harbor\u2026 among the hundreds of yachts, cabin cruisers, sea-doos, and commercial fishing boats. As we sipped a cool beverage on the yacht-club deck on Sunday, I\u2019ll admit we felt a little smug\u2014we couldn\u2019t help but overhear the party beside us discussing the cost of the 600 liters of fuel they had just pumped into their own cabin cruiser.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u201cEveryone must believe in something. I believe I&#8217;ll go canoeing.\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winnipeg Beach, Manitoba Well, we finally launched my old canoe this past weekend\u2026 Ev\u2019s been living on the shores of Lake Winnipeg for five years now (it\u2019s the largest of Manitoba\u2019s 100,000 lakes, the 11th-largest freshwater lake in the world, and at 23,553 km\u00b2 [9,094 sq. miles] it\u2019s larger than both Israel and Slovenia) and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,10,21,11,14,15,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=773"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16833,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions\/16833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}