If you haven't been paying attention it's easy to miss that the perfect canoeing opportunity in Houston is right under your nose on Buffalo Bayou. The bayou laces through the city and downtown, and there are stretches of the waterway where you can take in vibrant greenery and wildlife, everything from blinking turtles to snakes hanging out in the water to the trees that line the banks of the bayou, not to mention the sections that play host to majestic blue herons and a plethora of other birds. It's an entire wild world right in the middle of the city. Because of damage to the bayou from Hurricane Harvey, canoe rentals are suspended and will resume sometime later this year.