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Weekly Photo Challenge: Surprise
By Vladimir Brezina This week’s Photo Challenge is Surprise. Kayaking around New York Harbor, we see many surprising things. And one of the most surprising, hidden in a narrow Brooklyn creek, is the...
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Last Manhattan Circumnavigation of 2012
By Johna Till Johnson Photos by Vladimir Brezina At the time, it didn’t seem like a big deal: On a sunny weekend in late October, we decided to circumnavigate Manhattan. We didn’t anticipate, though,...
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A Word A Week Photo Challenge — Cloud
By Vladimir Brezina On A Word In Your Ear , Skinnywench’s photo challenge this week is Cloud. Since I have so many photos of clouds—it’s hard to avoid clouds, just as it is hard to avoid water, in...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Beyond
By Vladimir Brezina This week’s Photo Challenge is Beyond. When paddling counterclockwise around Manhattan, or down the Hudson River back to the city, there comes that breathtaking moment when the...
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Travel Theme: Walls
By Vladimir Brezina Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week is Walls. Kayaking around the highly urban New York Harbor, we pass by many colorful and inspirational walls… More on the marine art...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Unique
By Vladimir Brezina This week’s Photo Challenge is Unique. Seen at last September’s Great North River Tugboat Race & Competition.
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A Word A Week Challenge: Industrial
By Vladimir Brezina Over on A Word In Your Ear, Sue’s A Word A Week Challenge this week is Industrial. Paddling through New York Harbor, the ecosystem that we observe is not Nature, but Industry. Where...
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Travel Theme: Bridges
By Vladimir Brezina Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week is Bridges. Ailsa asks, “Are you ready to cross the bridge when you come to it?” But we follow quite another set of routes through...
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First NYC Paddle Since Sandy!
By Vladimir Brezina and Johna Till Johnson Four months is a long time. And it’s been just over four months since we’ve been out on NYC waterways—since our trip to the Gowanus Canal right before...
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A Magical Maiden Voyage
By Johna Till Johnson Photos by Vladimir Brezina “This will be your best circumnav ever,” said Randy, smiling. I smiled back, a bit dubiously. Randy’s a friend and the owner of the New York Kayak...
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This Year’s Visit to the Swinburne Island Seals
By Vladimir Brezina Last week’s excitement about the East River Dolphin reminded us that we hadn’t seen our old friends, the Swinburne Island seals, in almost a year, since last April in fact. So on...
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A Spring Paddle Along the Palisades
By Vladimir Brezina Yesterday, we paddled up the Hudson River along the Palisades, all freshly green… (click on any photo to start slideshow) . Best of all, as the last photo shows, the official...
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Manhattan Island Marathon Swim 2013: Photos
By Vladimir Brezina Each summer, NYC Swim organizes a series of shorter and longer swims in New York City’s waterways. The premier event is the Manhattan Island Marathon Swim (MIMS), a 28.5-mile race...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: The World Through My Eyes
By Vladimir Brezina This week’s Photo Challenge is The World Through Your Eyes. Kayaking through New York Harbor, you never know what you’ll see…
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Mulberries!
By Johna Till Johnson Photos by Vladimir Brezina I looked behind me. Vlad had disappeared. Both those things were somewhat unexpected. Normally Vlad paddles slightly ahead of me, or we keep pace. But...
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A Perfect Summertime Manhattan Circumnavigation
By Vladimir Brezina A Manhattan circumnavigation is the classic trip of New York City kayaking. No two Manhattan circumnavigations are the same. After having done a couple of hundred of them, probably,...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Nostalgic
By Vladimir Brezina This week’s Photo Challenge is Nostalgic. Kayaking through New York City’s waterways and becoming aware of the maritime traditions of the harbor, it’s hard not to become nostalgic...
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Sculling for Support
By Johna Till Johnson Photos by Vladimir Brezina Even though I’ve now passed the BCU three-star exam, I’ve decided to spend this summer working on boat-maneuvering skills. Truth is, while I’m pretty...
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If It’s Summer, It’s Time for a Sandy Hook Paddle!
By Johna Till Johnson Photos by Vladimir Brezina Yesterday was a perfect summer’s day. Well, if your definition of ”perfect” includes placid weather, blue skies, and hot sunshine. Mine does—if I’m on...
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What to Do with Visitors to NYC? A Round-Manhattan Paddle!
By Vladimir Brezina We are constantly racking our brains trying to come up with new things for people who visit us in NYC to do. Empire State Building? They’ve been there. Statue of Liberty? They’ve...
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