You can canoe, kayak or whitewater raft the many lakes and rivers.
The Athapascan covered all north-western Canada with his open and portable birch-bark canoe, somewhat resembling the kayak in finish.
Commencing in the Arctic region, the Eskimo in his kayak, consisting of a framework of driftwood or bone covered with dressed sealskin, could paddle down east Greenland, up the west shore to Smith Sound, along Baffin Land and Labrador, and the shores of Hudson Bay throughout insular Canada and the Alaskan coast, around to Mount St Elias, and for many miles on the eastern shore of Asia.
The key is having a kayak well fitted with buoyancy and having a bulkhead near to the rear of the cockpit.
Some kayakers do carry their flares on the deck of their kayak, typically under the deck elastics just in front of the cockpit.