Gunkholing

Other locales well-suited to gunkholing include the Intracoastal Waterway, the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta, the New York State Canal System, the Chesapeake Bay,[1] the Great Lakes and the many canals and rivers in Ontario.

Although comparatively little is written in English on gunkholing outside North America, there has long been considerable interest in many regions around the world.

The Caribbean and Central American coasts are famous for gunkholing opportunities and have been portrayed in a great deal of literature, including Ernest Hemingway's "Islands in the Stream."

The sparsely populated coastline of southern Chile, with its thousands of remote islands and numerous channels, fjords, and coves, is an area that is seeing increasing gunkholing activity, particularly by sea-kayakers.

[citation needed] In the United Kingdom, gunkholing is colloquially referred to as creek crawling, and administrative bodies including the Royal Yachting Association appear to use this term.