Hi! Welcome at my kayak site. My name is Johan. One of my hobbies is kayaking. I like to explore new places where you can kayak.
I also like photography and working on websites.
So the result is a website about where you can kayak and lots of photo's on it.
This is a personal page about touristic kayaking. So no information about white water or sea kayaking.
You can read where to kayak in the Netherlands and you can also find information about some places in other countries where I've been.
I like to share the information I gathered over the years. It is not a coverage of all the places where you can kayak, there's still a lot to explore.
So every year I write updates and I still add new pages to the site.
I hope you will enjoy it and that it may inspire you to take your kayak to the water.
If you may find something incorrect in the described routes, or if you have any suggestions, please let me know. Then I can make corrections so other people can benefit from it.
This site is
copyright protected. If you are interested in using anything from this site, please contact me.
Expected precipitation for the next 3 hours
kanoweb/kanokaart.nl. A map of the Netherlands with kayak related information.
Information about the weather on
weeronline.nl.
Images and info about the weather on
Meteotines.
Windy. Worldmap about wind and more.
TKBN Touristic kayak club of the Netherlands.
Air BNB Find a place to stay overnight.
GPS Coordinates for calculation between Ddmmss and DDmmmm (decimal minutes).
Routeradar Up-to-date traffic information.
The Naked Kayaker Here you find a map with kayak rentals.
I don't rent out kayaks myself!
Just to be clear: I only share information about where to kayak. If there is a kayak rental, it is mentioned on the page.
You have to contact the kayak-rental yourself, I'm not a middleman.
News:
December 2019
- On Christmas day I went to Amsterdam to walk around the city and the
Light Festifal.
I once visited the Light Festifal by kayak, but it's difficult to get the right photo's as many boats pass by.
So this year I did the walking tour again. I like to share some photo's.
Building activities at the Oosterdok.
View on the Shipping Museum.
40 replica's of signs from the Korean capital Seoul.
Flooded city.
Old crane at the Entrepot Dock.
Eyes flash up behind the zoo Artis.
Butterflies.
An explosion of light tubes: "Nothing holding us".
Not a part of the Light Festifal, but still impressive:
enlighted boxes in front of the warehouse Bijenkorf.
- So far I drew all the maps on this side just with a mouse using Photoshop Elements. But now I purchased a Huion tablet to make this job easier and get a better result.
I can say it really saves a lote of time working with layers. And working with a pencil on a screen gives a lot better result.
I drew new maps of the
Braassemermeer and Veenpolder near Roelofarendsveen.
October 2019
- The page Vinkeveense Plassen is renewed with a new map, new photo's, a GPS-track and new route.
- I made a round trip in Grootebroek, Bovenkarspel and Broekerhaven. I renewed the page Enkhuizen with a new map, new photo's, a GPS-track and new text.
New in this area are numbered waypoints that help you find directions.
September 2019
- I made a new page of the Angstelroute with a new map and GPS-track.
In the past this was part of the page Vinkeveense Plassen, but after I made some new photo's I decided to make a new page.
- I went to the Eilandspolder.
The routes with the bird-names made place for routes marked by coloured arrows.
I updated the map.
June 2019
- I did the round trip Zijpe again.
There are new photo's, a new map, a GPS-track and the text has been updated.
- In the south of Rotterdam there is a new kayak route named
De Blauwe Verbinding.
I navigated the waterway to discover it's only finished for about two third of the distance.
May 2019
- There is a new route to Lollum on the page about
Franeker.
I also did the existing route starting at Tzum again, and made new photo's.
There are GPS-tracks of both routes.
