Kim Schneider at mlive has an interesting outdoors travel idea: paddle with the salmon runs in West Michigan.  Excerpt and link:

Warning: You risk irritating a few fisherpeople with my newly discovered favorite early fall outing. But the entertainment value of kayaking amid the giant salmon migrating up Michigan rivers outweighs a few nasty thoughts channeled your way. And it’s not like you actually scare away the hordes of fish teeming around you.

My friend Shelly and I paddled a short stretch of the Boardman River in Traverse City this past weekend, putting in behind the city’s new Warehouse District (just behind the fish weir and ladder) and floating downstream into Grand Traverse Bay. You can rent canoes and kayaks there for paddling the urban stretch of the Boardman. And you get a bit of a “swim with the sharks” experience, at least for the next couple of weeks, when you see the dozens of tail fins sticking up, and fish leaping around you.

Full story:

http://blog.mlive.com/traveling_coach/2008/09/swim_with_the_salmon.html

Note: There is an excellent video on youtube of a family canoeing the salmon run on the Platte River a week or two ago.  It is located at this link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pw-0ml-diI

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