Banana Boats -- Kayaks at Hume Lake Christian Camps, California Poster

This bunch of boats was piled at the edge of Hume Lake, a reservoir in the Sequoia National Forest between Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks.

Hume Lake was formed in 1908 to store logs for a lumber. Since logging ended in 1924 it's been used primarily for recreation and is owned by the U.S. Forest Service. The Hume Lake Christian Camps, a nonprofit Christian organization that works outside of and across denominations, is located beside the lake. The camps focus on worship services and Bible teaching. Hume Lake Christian Camps was founded in 1945 as Felloship Conferences. In 1946 it purchased 320 acres of land adjacent to Hume Lake and that summer it hosted 670 campers. In the years since it has hosted more than one-million people.

Kayaks are small, narrow boats, usually propelled by a double-bladed paddle. They were first used by the Inuit, Yup'ik, and Aleut people to hunt on inland lakes, rivers, and coastal waters of the Arctic, North Atlantic, and North Pacific...

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