By total contrast, week two takes you into Botswana to explore the waterways and flood plains of the delta.
If you want to explore the waterways, Carolina Outdoors/Kitty Hawk Kites will hook you up with a kayaking adventure in the bay, or for the more adventurous, an excursion on the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge, where you may spy the eponymous reptiles sunning themselves on the bank.
The kayak's shallow draft, narrow width, and quiet operation allowed Eskimo hunters to explore tightly constricted waterways with great stealth, which helped them harvest more game.
Shortly before reaching Lakes Entrance, the village of Metung is a lovely base from which to explore Gippsland's waterways, with several good eateries and boat hire.
Built by the Dutch explorer Adriaen Block five years after Hudson's visit, the fifty-foot-long shallow-draft ship was used to explore the inland waterways and coastal waters of New England.
Plan to explore ports along narrow waterways such as China's Yangtze River, the Nile River in Egypt or even the Amazon River in Brazil and Peru.
One of Wakeboarding's most ingenious touches is the way you can let go of the rope attaching you to the speedboat to explore mysterious tunnels or side waterways, although you must signal the boatman to toss you the rope again before you lose momentum and flounder.
But it does offer a luxurious way to explore one of the lesser-known waterways of the continent: the Chobe River in Botswana.
Ben Zucker, a photographer from upstate New York and an avid sailor since childhood, moors a small sailboat at the City Island docks, in the Bronx, which he takes out regularly, preferring to explore the five boroughs via their many waterways.
To explore possible associations between blastomycosis occurrence and waterways, we used a 1∶24,000 hydrography shapefile obtained from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (URL:http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/maps/gis/datahydro.html) and a streams and waterbodies shapefile obtained from the U.S. National Atlas (URL:http://www.nationalatlas.gov/).
