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ADVENTURE PORT HOPE

THE WILD RIVER RIDE YOU'LL NEVER FORGET

RACE OR CHEER AT THE FLOAT YOUR FANNY DOWN THE GANNY RACE

4-degrees Celsius. That's the average water temperature on race day at Port Hope's one-of-a-kind river ride in April. In other words, unless you want your fanny to get chilled in the icy water, wear a wetsuit. Even the thousands of spectators that come to town every year to see the competitive fun usually bundle up. This is not an event for the faint of heart, but for the fiercely determined and outrageously costumed. The 10km paddle frenzy down the Ganaraska River has seen its share of serious kayakers and canoeists, alongside gung-ho Viking crews and black-hatted witches steering the 60 or more homemade "crazy crafts" that highlight the event.

Whatever floats your boat, go for it! The annual race commemorates the town's devastating flood of 1980 when a deluge of rain on March 21 caused the river to rise and flood the streets in the core. Locals like to reminisce about the power outage, the evacuation, the crumbling buildings and huge slabs of ice and river rock the current pushed out to Lake Ontario. But even more than that, they're proud of a community that rallied to help pile sandbags to redirect the water. The people of Port Hope came out by the