I love to kayak on the weekends.
That sounds like fun, do you know when the kayak was invented?
No but I love how the kayak is a canoe like boat.
It is pretty similar, do you know what the kayak was traditionally used for?
No, but I prefer a closed deck kayak.
What exactly is a closed deck kayak, can you elaborate on that?
It is hard to explain, but kayaks were created thousands of years ago by the Inuit.
Oh that's cool, who exactly are the Inuit?
Inuit
The Inuit (; syllabics: , "the people", singular: "Inuk", dual: "Inuuk") are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting Inuit Nunangat, the Arctic regions of Greenland, Canada, and Alaska. The Inuit languages are part of the Eskimo–Aleut family. Inuit Sign Language is a critically endangered language isolate used in Nunavut.
In Canada and the United States, the term "Eskimo" was commonly used by ethnic Europeans to describe the Inuit and Siberia's and
Outline of canoeing and kayaking
The following outline is provided as an overview of canoeing and kayaking:
Canoeing – recreational boating activity or paddle sport in which you kneel or sit facing forward in an open or closed-decked canoe, and propel yourself with a single-bladed paddle, under your own power.
Kayaking – use of a kayak for moving across water. It is distinguished from canoeing by the sitting position of the paddler and the number of blades on the paddle. A kayak is a boat where the