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.
Yes, their former name was the Eskimos. But kayaks are really stealthy and allow hunters to sneak up behind animals on the shoreline.
Poor animals! Yes, I can see that they would be very useful for hunters. Perhaps I
kayak became increasingly popular and the Europeans became interested. German and French men began kayaking for sport. In 1931, Adolf Anderle was the first person to kayak down the Salzachöfen Gorge, which is believed to be the birthplace of modern-day white-water kayaking. Kayak races were introduced in the Berlin Olympic Games in 1936. 
In the 1950s, fiberglass kayaks were developed and commonly used, until 1980s when polyethylene plastic kayaks were introduced. Kayaking progressed as a fringe sport in the U.S. until the 1970s, when it
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