The magic of kayaking is that rather than being a single water sport, there are kayaks optimized for (almost) every kind of waterway and every sort of aquatic interest. There are kayaks built to ply ...

Which kayak is best for beginners? Summer is the perfect time to start learning a new water sport. If you want something more intense than swimming or stand-up paddleboarding, check out kayaking.

For her birthday, a mother just wanted to look at the back of her Setauket home — from a kayak. She feasted visually “in awe” of her house for about 10 minutes, recounts tour guide Kevin Stiegelmaier, ...