I love kayaking! It's different from canoeing in that the seating position is different and there are two blades on the paddle.
I have never been kayaking - it sounds like a lot of fun! Where do you kayak?
I love kayaking in peaceful rivers. They were actually first created for hunting and fishing.
That would be so relaxing. Any idea who first created them?
They were made by the Inuit people in the northern Arctic regions.
Ah, ok. Aren't there Init people up in Alaska? I seem to remember reading something like that.
up behind animals on the shoreline and successfully catch their prey. 
In the 1740s, Russian explorers led by Vitus Bering came in contact with the Aleutians, who had taken the basic kayak concept and developed multiple designs specifically for hunting, transportation, and environmental conditions. They soon recognized the Aleutians were very skillful at hunting sea otters by kayak. Because otters were a popular commodity in Europe and Asia, they would exploit and even kidnap Aleutians and keep them aboard their ships to work and hunt. 
By the mid-1800s the
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