By Vladimir Brezina
From yesterday’s paddle along the Palisades…
And today the storm is upon us!
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Wind Against Current by Vladimir Brezina and Johna Till Johnson is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.Authors
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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Wind Against Current 
Oh my goodness your part of the world is really getting true winter this year! Is it much harsher than usual?
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I don’t think it is, actually. My impression is that winters twenty or thirty years ago, not to mention in the 19th century, were harsher. The last decade featured a number of mild winters. What’s a bit peculiar about this winter is that there have been big and rapid swings in temperature: one day it’s 60 degrees (Fahrenheit), the next day the temperature plummets to -10 degrees…
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Thanks for that Vlad. Here in Calgary we have those kinds of swings all the time but it is prompted by the Chinook winds blowing in from the mountains. Interesting that it would happen on the coast.
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Different mechanism. Here it was an intrusion of the polar vortex to unusually southerly latitudes, a couple of weeks ago or so. This storm now seems to be just the usual winter coastal storm…
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Stay safe and share photos :) We may get another 5 to 8 inches they say :)
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It’s been snowing steadily all day, so you are probably right…
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:) It will be a coastal storm so go steady in your p[arts :)
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But I would be TERRIFIED out there on the water in those tiny little craft. I don’t have a brave (or practical) bone in my somewhat large body, alas! It has been suggested that they’re all in my head .. [grin]
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In the head is all good!! :-)
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My arms are getting so tired following your blog! Stop rowing already!
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If your arms are getting tired, you are doing it wrong! It’s all about torso rotation… ;-)
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I only do that with my wife!
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Yes, it’s very similar…
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Oh yeah, what about storms? Be careful!
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Storms make it fun! Up to a point… ;-)
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Palisades Park came to my mind…by Freddy Cannon…
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This opens up quite a new perspective on the Palisades… :-)
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Reblogged this on Locating Frankenstein's Brain.
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Thanks!!
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Beautiful, eerie shots again, Vlad, thanks! Enjoyed all the comments so far, too. Had a few chuckles. And “Palisades Park”, my brain started playing the organ part in my head, as a keyboard player that’s not so unusual, but it certainly does show my age! Stay warm and I hope you don’t have to shovel snow. After reading Johna’s latest on your Everglades paddle, I am ready to review some pictures of our mangrove paddles last month and maybe even do another blog, to balance out the cold Portland weather (with sun and no snow, luckily).
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The comments are often the best part!
Fortunately we don’t have to shovel snow, here on the 17th floor… :-)
Looking forward to your pictures!!
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The enormity of the ocean is bewildering, isn’t it? It dwarfs all.
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Indeed… Thanks!! :-)
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Great and interesting post thanks for sharing, Vladimir
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You are most welcome, Hanna!
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Stay warm, Vladimir!
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We are trying! Thanks, Amy! :-)
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Great post! Thanks for sharing :-)
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You are most welcome—thanks!!
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I love being on the water with you… Even in a storm.
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This was before the storm—during the storm we stayed on land :-)
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When I look at the photographs of your kayaking on the chilly river, I wonder how you got bitten by the kayak bug…perhaps it is somewhere on the blog and I am coming to it all late. Just invigorating adventure- vicariously for me through your photographs.
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Actually, come to think of it, I don’t think it’s anywhere on the blog. Foundational myths are best left unexamined… ;-)
But seriously, that would make a good post—I’ll add it to the list :-) Thanks!!
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How far up river did you go?
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Not that far (we started later than we planned)—to Yonkers or thereabouts.
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