• morphballganon@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    If you assume everyone can afford canoe lessons, that comes across as pretty entitled to those of us who don’t have expendable income like that.

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      1 year ago

      Where I live, most public school students will at some point in their education will go on a (free) field trip to a nature preserve or national/provincial park which often includes canoeing. Even in downtown Toronto, there’s a notable push to expose students to nature and they’ve been bussing classes out of the city for a day.

      I don’t know, maybe I’m just lucky (though I wouldn’t say entitled), that paddling around in a canoe/kayak is pretty normalized. I looked up some rentals around me and they were <$50 for a full day. Of course some can’t afford that, but it feels like a pretty good value for a full day of family activity.