The best story I heard bout transplants to Oregon thinking that those “irrigation canals” -—owned by the local ranchers/ farmers/ were ‘available for kayaking-—
Then when they were going at a decent speed with the flow of water—they would nearly get decapitated by the barbed wire fences between properties..
Some got badly hurt.
They tried to sue the ranchers.
Got sued for trespassing instead.
I hadn’t heard about that (I’m in eastern WA). I know kids try to go over the irrigation “waterfalls” and through the tunnels with sometimes fatal results.
I believe there is a section of main canal near Moses Lake (The Potholes), where kayaking / canoeing is allowed, but don’t know what the current status is. The canals, of course, are being shutdown now for the winter.