Newly formed non-profit aims to provide inclusive experience of Alberta waters
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“ kind of dear to our heart and it’s been very overwhelming, the response we’ve been getting,” Butch said. The Pollocks said they are learning as they go and thinking of ways to expand the experience in the future. “We’re thinking of package options — being able to take people out to a river if they have the means to go on a picnic or heading into the city or a small fishing trip,” Sarah said.‘It was fantastic’
Marla Smith and her service dog Kuno have done a couple of tours of the river with Accessible Waters.“Adaptive recreation is really often expensive, it’s inaccessible, hard to get to — not something that’s easy to find in the disabled community as a whole.”“The feeling of the wind in your face — you can feel the water move under you — it doesn’t feel like you’re in a wheelchair,” Smith explained.
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