Wood On Water: A 40 day all girl canoe tripping adventure (2024 Short Edit)

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Published 2024-05-09
This is a story about a slow, steady, strenuous all female adventure. Forty days spent canoe tripping in the Canadian wilderness.

Wood on Water is also about the joy of nature and what happens when women and teenagers get together far from the stresses of everyday life. The girls spend a counter-cultural summer exploring their physical surroundings and inner selves free from mainstream society’s expectations. Over six weeks of summer, this all-girl group paddle traditional wood-canvas canoes through the remote northern wilderness, travelling a network of streams, lakes, rivers, mudholes and muskeg bogs, with one resupply via float plane.

At the heart of this story is an American summer camp – but not as most people know it. The camp is called Keewaydin and it’s one of the oldest operating summer camp in North America.

For more visit maiamedia.co.uk/wood-on-water-an-all-girl-canoe-tr… parts of this film are also featured in the permanent collection of the Canadian Canoe Museum

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All Comments (21)
  • @Barret-paddles
    It is an age old formula/experience that still works especially today with social media/cell phones etc. I spent 5 summers at Wohelo in ME ( still run by the same family and founded by Luther Gulick in 1907). I am now in my 60's and those camp days and canoe trips remain the highlight of my life and changed me forever. The gifts/lessons/experiences that they provided remain at my core. I still paddle and trip, the call of loons touch my soul always, and some of those friends are still with me. To those parents who gave their girls such a gift, BRAVO! You and they will always be grateful! :-)
  • @thomasquigley7040
    As a proud dad of daughters, this really hit me in the feels. Well done all of you.
  • @poplife279
    ok, I'm crying... This was a truly beautiful film.
  • @rockytopwrangler2069
    ... What a fantastic film ... An amazing camp building strength ,,inside and out ... and character development to be leaders of their own environment ... well done ...
  • @seventhdayissabbath8747
    When I was 14 I went on a 2 week canoe trip on the Bowron Lakes in Canada, it was an exciting wonderful, beautiful trip that I will never forget.
  • @richsharpe349
    What a great story! I will be sharing this with my female canoeist friends and family!
  • @raktoda707
    Amazing journey.It is a special area .I canoed myself,my dog up in that area in the late 1980's .Much has changed since then but the wild bond of you, earth,water and your responsibility to it never left.I'm near 71 now, that truly was the heaven on Earth I sought , the rest has been living in its shadow of that memory, of a true wilderness,being blessed to be alive.Rt.10 Isolée forever!😢
  • @Narrowway7
    Keewaydin!!! My dad grew up going there. He just passed away a few weeks ago 😢 we still have our island on lake temagami that’s been in our family since early 1900s. Looking forward to going this summer and canoeing in his memory. Thanks for sharing ❤
  • @bartjames100
    It’s a trip you’ll never forget. Outward Bound was the best thing I ever did as a teenager.
  • @steveholman3451
    Great story, great camp! Was astonished at portage technique of sticking your head between the box of the paddles, and then trying to stand up!! Yikes a trap! So much easier and safer to use the tip end of the paddles. Easy in easy out… put stern down, slide neck forward, rotate canoe with arms and set down. Reverse to place canoe from ground to shoulders!