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Delight all 5 senses on Kauai kayaking excursion

By Cheryl Chee Tsutsumi

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Feb 24, 2013

~~<p>Pete Fisher, owner and founder of Kayak Wai&shy;lua, is serious when he says his hiking and kayaking tour along the Wai&shy;lua River is suitable for just about everyone.</p>
<p>&quot;We've taken out paraplegics and blind people,&quot; he said. &quot;Participants with prosthetic legs are fairly common. Our youngest guest was an infant, and the oldest was a 90-year-old woman who needed no extra help, although she was exceptionally fit for her age. Our heaviest kayaker was a man who said he weighed 485 pounds. He didn't huli (capsize), but after the tour, the backrest on his seat looked like a steamroller had run over it.&quot;</p>
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Pete Fisher, owner and founder of Kayak Wai­lua, is serious when he says his hiking and kayaking tour along the Wai­lua River is suitable for just about everyone.

"We've taken out paraplegics and blind people," he said. "Participants with prosthetic legs are fairly common. Our youngest guest was an infant, and the oldest was a 90-year-old woman who needed no extra help, although she was exceptionally fit for her age. Our heaviest kayaker was a man who said he weighed 485 pounds. He didn't huli (capsize), but after the tour, the backrest on his seat looked like a steamroller had run over it." Login for more...



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