By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Escape.
Congrats on a successful escape!
until recaptured, of course—
(From Day 5 of our 2012 Long Island kayak circumnavigation)
And here‘s a more active escapee…
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Vladimir Brezina (RIP)
... kayaked the waters around New York for more than 15 years in his red Feathercraft folding kayak. He was originally from (the former) Czechoslovakia and lived in the U.K. and California before settling down in New York. He was a neuroscientist at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. He died in 2016.Johna Till Johnson
... is a kayaker and technology researcher at Nemertes Research. She's an erstwhile engineer, particle physicist, and science fiction writer. She was born in California and has lived in Italy, Norway, Hawaii, and a few other places. She currently resides in New York City.Recent Comments
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They almost got away. :)
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Almost…
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Hahaha! Nice. ;)
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Thanks! :-)
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Very cool find
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:-)
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Congratulations on capturing those balloons! I’ve trained my kids to understand we don’t do that because it always ends up hurting animals down the road. I bet you see interesting things in the water when you kayak sometimes.
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We do… fortunately most of them are natural things :-)
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Hahah, nice recapturing of the escape! ;)
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You can’t escape forever…
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Cute. I’ve always wondered what happened to escaping balloons
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They float high for a few days, and then it’s all over…
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:-) ciao Vladimir!!!!! :-)
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Ciao! :-)
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Glad you captured them. Balloons are quite a controversial item, right? Create hazards for marine creatures….. Ban them i say!!
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Very unlikely to happen…
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The sea HAS an incredible color. Who would not attempt an escape:-)
Greetings,
Hanna
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We certainly were escaping, if only for a few days :-)
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very cool. I have not had my boat out yet this year – but looking forward to next weekend. Your blog always inspires me to pick up my paddle!
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Go for it! (But watch out for the still-cold water.) We are very happy to be able to provide the inspiration!
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This makes me sad, then happy. Floating balloons are forlorn. And bad for the environment. But yay for the retrieval, even if their escape plan was foiled.
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Forlorn is right…
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Love it! Glad you kept them from escaping.
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Temporarily, unfortunately…
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Yes, that is true, but if we all just did little things like that, our world would be much better off.
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Awww … those balloons never made it to the sky. hahaha
What a mess it would have been if a fish had eaten them. Glad you saved a lot of sealife. ~~~ : – )
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I think they almost certainly did make it to the sky, where they floated for a few days before losing enough helium to descend… Here’s another escapee that clearly did make it to the sky:
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I saw a floating balloon this morning … I wonder where it went …
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They can go a surprising long way, and rise surprisingly high… In the city we often see them floating up and up, rising high above the skyscrapers of Manhattan…
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This one was floating near the road as I drove to work. I have a feeling that it is a remnant of the community yard sale that happened over the weekend.
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its amazing how many of those things are floating around, we saw a lot heading south last year
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We’ve seen quite a few on some recent trips, too…
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Perfect!
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Thanks, Naomi! :-)
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Good one!
janet
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Thanks, Janet!
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Vladi — Thanks for doing your part in cleaning up the environment. Nice two frames.
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Thank you!!
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Yeesssssssssssssssssssss!
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Thankssss, Cheryl! ;-)
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