Daily Archives: August 4, 2013

By Vladimir Brezina

It’s our routine. Weekends, we paddle. And when the tidal currents say go south, we go south. And, unless we can think of something more ambitious, that means Sandy Hook.

But each trip is different. The sea and the sky have a different look and feel each time. We see different ships in the harbor. I can’t resist taking photos to capture it all. Here are a few from yesterday’s trip.

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We inspect a new, a very useful, green buoy that the Coast Guard has placed in the harbor

We pass over the Bay Ridge Flats, among the anchored barges

A yellow buoy, for a change

Looking back at Manhattan

Who will win this one?

It wasn’t at all clear which ship was closer to us… now we have the answer

We follow the Maersk container ship out to sea

We pass under the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge

We wait for traffic to pass in the Ambrose Channel

Even bigger traffic!

Time to start across

Lonely Romer Shoal Light

On Sandy Hook…

… we climb up to our favorite ruins for lunch

Ruins with a view

Prickly pear cactus now grows in the gun emplacements

View in the other direction, toward Atlantic Highlands

In the salt marsh below the ruins, crab holes

… and fiddler (?) crabs

With terns wheeling above, we paddle back

Cormorant apartment building

… with plenty of tenants

Sun on the sea

Water texture

Romer Shoal Light again

… all alone in the sea

Red buoy

It’s hard to capture the feel of the waves, but sometimes it’s something like this

Late afternoon seascape

We pass Coney Island

… and back under the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge

The city is in sight

Sunset light on the water

Just at sunset, the red sun appears from behind the cloud on the horizon, next to the Statue of Liberty…