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Kayaking in the Magdalen Islands takes visitors along a dramatic coastline of red cliffs sculpted by wind and waves. Photo Judi Lees


Kayaking in Quebec's magnificent Magdalens
Cap-Aux-Meules-"I think of them as grains of sand pushed up from the sea," says Maryse Arseneau.
 

Barge your way through Middle America in style
New Orleans, Louisiana-Barges are huge, unglamorous hulks, you say. Not the place you'd choose to spend your vacation. But Eddie Conrad Jr. is changing all that. The New Orleans entrepreneur took two workhorse barges and spent $20 million transforming them into one floating resort, the Riverboat Explorer.
 
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