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Brook Trout & Blackflies: A Paddler's Guide to Algonquin Park
By Kevin Callan.
Boston Mills Press, 144 pp. $16.95
ISBN: 1-55046-211-3
Review by MICHAEL PEAKE --
Che-Mun Editor
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Kevin Callan has been a one-man industry for Ontario canoeing. The writer and photographer has done several books on Ontario paddling and is a frequent speaker on the canoeing circuit.
Kevin has done his usual thorough and attractive job in his latest effort which spotlights the perennial favourite, Algonquin Park. Callan allows how this huge an popular park is perhaps - too popular. But he insists it has so much to offer and features 20 great canoe trips through the area.
Each trip is illustrated by a great map and the book is liberally sprinkled with beautiful, crisp black and white photos. And of course, Kevin helped do the maps and took the photos as well.Many of the routes he features are four days or less - perfect for short getaways. He also mentions the lower Petawawa - one of the great, accessible whitewater runs in Canada.
The book is much more than a trip guide. Callan weaves in anecdotes from his own trips, so there's all the nuts and bolts info but with some good stories thrown in.
On the lower Petawawa for example, there are some long, easy rapids after all the big stuff. Of course, they have portages on them, but few, very few would ever need them. Callan tells a great tale of meeting fours, rum-soaked canoeists who were walking out - somewhat despondently - after being thrown from their Grumman at the start of Five Mile Rapids! Kevin's crew showed them the magic of duct tape and had them sobered up and on their way the next morning.
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