Recycled Adventures: Urban Kayaking, New York City
By Vladimir Brezina Now that Johna and I are back from our New England kayaking trip (photos here, writeup still to come), it’s back to my regular old paddling routine in New York Harbor. Here’s an...
View ArticleIrene and Lee Have Left Quite a Mess in New York Harbor…
By Vladimir Brezina These tropical storms have certainly stirred things up! Hurricane Irene came through ten days ago and deluged the entire region, and a couple of days ago Tropical Storm Lee repeated...
View ArticleAn Exciting Manhattan Circumnavigation
By Johna Till Johnson Note: None of the four of us remembered to bring cameras, so you’ll have to do with a few similar photos from other trips—and your imagination! This story begins like all good...
View ArticleOnce More Round Manhattan
By Vladimir Brezina When the tide or the weather doesn’t cooperate or we simply can’t think of any other trip we’d rather do, we default to paddling round Manhattan. It’s our version of the run round...
View ArticleExploring Long Island Sound with 2 Geeks @ 3 Knots
By Johna Till Johnson Photos by Vladimir Brezina A couple of weekends ago, we set out to visit our friends and fellow kayakers Alex and Jean, who are also fellow bloggers at 2 Geeks @ 3 Knots (check...
View ArticleEaster Sunday Paddle
By Vladimir Brezina The weather is finally getting warmer, and the days longer. Time for one of our favorite paddles! In yesterday’s variant of the trip, we paddled up the East River, through Hell...
View ArticleTravel Theme: Rivers
By Vladimir Brezina Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week is Rivers. Kayaking around Manhattan revolves (so to speak) around three rivers: the Hudson River, the East River, and the Harlem...
View ArticleIce on the River
By Johna Till Johnson Flow on, river! flow with the flood-tide, and ebb with the ebb-tide! Frolic on, crested and scallop-edg’d waves! Gorgeous clouds of the sun-set! drench with your splendor me, or...
View ArticleAlphabet
By Vladimir Brezina We’re only up to “C”! A long way to go still on our circumnavigation of Manhattan… The Columbia “C” A contribution to this week’s Photo Challenge, Alphabet.
View ArticleLong Island Sound, Ahoy!
Winter sun in the Harlem River By Johna Till Johnson The police car slowed, then stopped. Busted! We’d just landed on the beach at SUNY Maritime College. Julie seemed confident that it was permitted,...
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