This week we officially opened our waterfront for the spring. This involves taking all of the boating equipment (canoes, kayaks, rowboats, paddles, and PFDs) out of winter storage and setting them all up on the boating docks. We'd been waiting for the water to get as warm as possible, but with the first canoeing classes of the spring on the schedule, we knew that it was time.
Right now we have two schools at the center. St. Marcel and St. Maria are schools from Quebec that organize a joint trip every spring. Both schools are for Québecquois (French-speaking) students, although the students who come to Poko have been studying English, and their trip is primarily for English immersion.
Canoeing is a great class for students learning English, as it involves practicing "direction" words such as "forward" and "backwards." Of course, sometimes it seems like the kids might not fully understand, as seen in the following picture! (Just kidding...these girls paddled like this for fun.)
Here are a few other pictures from canoeing...One of the best parts of the class was getting to do some close-up examination of on the beaver lodges on Long Pond.
All these pictures are from one of the canoe classes this morning. By the afternoon, the wind had picked up enough to make for a very challenging class, and the instructors were too busy keeping all the canoes together to take any pictures!
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