September 16th and Sept 17th, will be our last weekend at Fairy Lake during the 2017 Acton Fall Fair. We are excited to see the ground break for the new wheelchair accessible dock that will hopefully be ready (fingers crossed) for the 2018 season.

Please join us at the Paddle House! See you on the water.

Photograph by Ann Vanderlaan Adema

What’s SUP you ask??

Holy Cow Canoe is pleased to offer this new and fun outdoor activity to Fairy Lake. Thinking of something different for date night, girls night out? or something for the kids. Try stand up paddle boarding. We have safe stable SUP boards specially designed for the first time users equipped with a longboard paddle. Fairy lake is a calm and quiet lake perfect to try out your new skills. We have available to you an instructor who can help you with your paddle sport needs.

From Wikipedia; Stand up paddle surfing and stand up paddle boarding (SUP), (Hoe he’e nalu in the Hawaiian language) are sports originating in Hawaii as an off-shoot of surfing. They enable surfers to paddle farther into the ocean than is typical or to paddle standing up as a sport unto itself. A 2013 report called it the outdoor sporting activity with the most first-time participants of any in the United States that year.^[1] Paddlers race on lakes, large rivers and canals, ride breaking waves, and glide over long distances along sea coasts, often using tail winds to aid the trip.

Stand up paddlers wear a variety of wet suits and other clothing, depending on both water and air temperature since most of their time is spent standing on the board.

A related, traditional sport, paddleboarding, is done kneeling on a board and paddling with the hands, similar to a butterfly swimming stroke. The term “paddleboarding” is sometimes incorrectly used to refer to stand up paddle surfing.

Historian and writer Steve West, notes that the contemporary notion of stand up paddle boarding, if attributed to the Waikiki Beach Boys of Oahu during the 1960s, considers that outrigger canoeing should in fact be recognised as the direct link between the idea of standing on a board and propelling it with a canoe paddle, seeing as these two primary skills (board riding and paddling) were merely being combined, by people who had traditionally grown up around both skills as part of their cultural right of passage.

Canoe Kayaks and SUP boards are available to rent at the Fairy Lake Outpost in Acton – Please visit our rental page for more information. 

Instructional help is available, drop in classes, as well as a class on Fridays at 1pm. Join us at the boathouse.

New Stand Up Paddle Boards are available

“We’re pleased to have this service offered to local residents” said Mayor Rick Bonnette. “Canoeing on Fairy Lake offers families a great opportunity to learn more about nature while enjoying this amazing resource and being active.”

Visit the Town of Halton Hills- for the official Media release.

We will be reporting back to the town at the end of season and hope that this paddling season will bring lots of great memories for everyone. It is our hope the townspeople will enjoy this new safe fun family program that all kids will enjoy!

We have visitors from all over the provinces and the United States come and visit us at the Acton facility. With that a lot of people ask where can they go for their first paddle, and we always direct them to Fairy Lake, a five minute drive from the shop. For an Halton Hills visitors guide click here.

Wednesday July 9th, there is a Geocaching Fairy Lake Paddle event. For all the Geocachers, the GPS coordinates for the Canoe Rental location are:
N 43 degrees 37.768 minutes
W 080 degrees 02.761 minutes

Visit the Geocaching website for more information on this terrific modern day treasure hunt that the kids are sure to love.

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Unloading canoes for the Fairy Lake Canoe Outpost