By Johna Till Johnson
Photos by Vladimir Brezina
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We made it! Ten days, including a final “double day”—instead of camping, we paddled overnight to get home just as dawn was breaking.
We are completely amazed by the diverse beauty of Long Island. We hadn’t previously realized how lovely it is—we know better now!
A full writeup is to come… but meantime, here are a few photos (move pointer over them for brief captions, click to enlarge). Many more photos to come!
Update July 11, 2012: The first of the series of full writeups is here.
Vladimir Brezina (RIP) 
Johna Till Johnson
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I AM NEW TO THE WORDPRESS SO I REAAD YOUR BLOG FIRST TIME AD ITS AWESOME. YOU HAVE AMAZING PICS IN IT
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Thanks, Soni! Welcome to the blogosphere!
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wow!! spectacular images. I particularly just loved the last one. Thanks so much for sharing and congrats for getting freshly pressed!
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The last one, when we were safely back in NYC? Yes, we kind of like that one too ;-)
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Wow, awesome pictures! Looks like you’re having some great time on your adventure. Lovin’ the beach photos, most especially. :D
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Thanks, Alyssa!
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What a fabulous trip, Vladimir. I would imagine that it took a lot of planning
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Not as much planning as we should have done—details to follow ;-)
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Congratulations on all three counts: your trip, being freshly pressed and your images.
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Thanks, John! I was just this morning over at your blog—recommended by maidstonejewelry, above—and I just love your photos! Now that we’ve actually seen eastern Long Island, some of your images really resonate. The writing is very nice as well—altogether a lovely blog. Will keep coming back often…
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W.O.W! The photos are breathtaking and oh so beautiful!
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Thanks, yen!
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I agree, Long Island is amazing! Great photos! Looking forward to the next post!
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That’s the spirit! This post was supposed to be just a little teaser ;-)
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Nice job! I’m an Islander but I’ve yet to circumnavigate. The bays are great. I’ve been hitting up the Peconic lately!
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We never made it into the Peconic on this trip, but we’ll be back!
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Oh wows, beautiful photos. Ya got a new follower, because I can’t wait to hear more about this! :)
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Welcome, and stay tuned! :-)
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What a beautiful adventure! Congrats on Freshly Pressed, so well deserved.
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Thanks, Jennifer—glad you liked it!
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Freshly pressed again, congratulations! That last picture is so representative of NY, love it!
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We had to paddle around the whole of Long Island to truly appreciate it ;-)
“…but whereto does all that circumnavigation conduct? Only through numberless perils to the very point whence we started.”
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CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And, as usual, fantastic photos!
:)
Lee
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Thanks!!! We owe a lot of it to the support of our faithful readers :-)
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Sweet trip. I love the idea of taking on a long term goal like this. To plan and workout all the things that go into it, but then ultimately it comes down to just doing it. Normally I might say, “to put one foot in front of the other” but in your case I guess it would be more appropriate to say, “one paddle stroke in front of the other.” The excitement of a journey like this can be overwhelming. Good job, and good luck on your next journey.
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It seems like you know quite a bit about it! That’s exactly right :-)
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the photos are amazing, as always!
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:-) Thanks!
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Fabulous photos! Congrats on being Freshly Pressed!
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Thanks—and I see you have some lovely photos on your own blogs as well!
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Wow! You made Freshly Pressed! I have to comment again. Congratulations!
Peace,
Alexandria
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Thank you, Alexandria! We were very surprised—this was supposed to be just a simple preliminary post…
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Ya just never know!
It was exciting to see someone I follow get Freshly Pressed. I was like, “Oh, I know him!”
Neat!
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This is actually the second time… so we are getting some idea of what they look for :-)
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I saw you were before. I’m glad you figured them out. I haven’t a clue but it’s okay with me. So congrats on it twice. I think that’s rare but I think that’s where I may have found you to begin with.
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this is so amazing, i should do it myself
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You most definitely should!
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What a journey you’ve gone through! Such spectacular images. Thanks for sharing with us your exciting achievement!
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You are most welcome! :-)
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Vladimir, great photos illustrating your adventure. I miss kayaking.
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It’s never too late to return to it…
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Hey I see you made Freshly Pressed. Congrats!
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Thanks, Penny!
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Fantastic! Congratulations on completing your journey, and on being Freshly Pressed!
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Thanks, Cathy!
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Congrats to you…AMAZING photos as usual.
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Many more photos to come—and thanks for following our blog!
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Great images, I hope I can visit Long Island in the future
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But you have to go by kayak! If you go by car you’ll see something quite different…
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beautiful photos, it looks like you paddled through a storm at some point
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Yes, several storms, including one dramatic one just as we were rounding Montauk Point, the easternmost point of our trip—photos to come, on Day 5…
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Curious, which place have you kayaked with the most changeable open water weather?
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We haven’t kayaked (yet) in the places where one would expect changeable weather (Britain, for example)…
But having said that, most places have pretty settled weather, or at least predictable weather, much of the time—but then, layered on top of those long-term weather patterns—much more rapidly changing phenomena such as thunderstorms. That’s obviously true in the tropics, but it’s true even around NYC. So the weather can be predicted fairly well, it isn’t changing much for most of the day, but then when a thunderstorm hits the conditions change by the minute, even by the second. It happens on many days in the New York summer…
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that looks absolutely amazing. Kayaking is one of those things I have yet to try. Its on the list.. along with snowboarding.
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Kayaking and snowboarding are in some ways not all that different, actually…
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? how so?
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Well, they both take place on water ;-)
No, it’s the body motions. I know more about skiing than snowboarding, actually, but the body motions and the feeling of paddling across waves do remind of me of skiing down a field of moguls. And the descent of a whitewater river is probably even more comparable to skiing down a steep slope with rocks and trees…
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LOL… Never really thought about it that way, on either count. I have never been skiing either, but I suppose I could see how that might be possible. I can feel the adrenaline now.
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Now go out and do it! :-)
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look at your enthusiasm…I haven’t the first clue about how/where to go about that…someone mentioned free classes on the pier in manhattan before.. I suppose I need to research something and stop computer screen kayaking eh?
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Hi White Pumpkin!
Downtown Boathouse runs a free weekend kayaking program in the summer–here’s a description (it’s from 2010, but the basics hold true): http://www.glenwoodnyc.com/manhattan-living/free-kayaking-nyc-on-the/
It’s at Pier 40 in Manhattan (West Side Highway and Houston St).
Did I mention it is FREE? :-)
Once you get the feeling of being out on the water in the city, you’ll be hooked… and once THAT happens, you’ll want to take lessons at NY Kayak Company (http://www.nykayak.com/). And then… Who knows? You might find yourself circumnavigating all kinds of islands… :-) :-)
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I was just looking at it Johna…Brooklyn has a similar thing. http://www.bbpboathouse.org/calendar/
I have an even busier weekend now! Glad I happened across your photos. :D
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Great! And it’s shaping up to be a lovely weekend, too…You won’t be sorry!
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Here’s to hoping… :)
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Congratulations. I don’t think many people have a clue as to what Long Island is like. You’ve given us a great view!
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Well, this is one view of Long Island… those taking the Long Island Expressway will of course have a different view! ;-)
More photos are in the individual daily writeups, still in progress but beginning here.
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Just W-O-W!
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:-) Thanks!!
We subsequently wrote up the trip in daily installments, beginning here.
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