# Everybody Plays!

# Kayaking

Kayaking is a sport where one sits in a boat called a kayak and uses a long paddle to move through the water. Always wear a life jacket for boating. Some kayaks are short, some are long. Some have small openings in which to sit and some have very large openings. To kayak, people put the kayak in a lake, river, or ocean. They carefully get in the kayak without tipping it over by keeping their bottom low -- they do not stand up in the kayak. A kayak paddle has a blade on both ends of the shaft; imagine a paddle shaped like a flattened Q-tip®. Once everyone is in, they paddle on the right side then on the left side, and keep paddling back and forth.

A lone kayaker glides across the water in a small blue kayak. The sun reflects on some of the water and the trees cast shadows on other parts of the water.