Daily Archives: February 23, 2014

By Vladimir Brezina

We’ve been ice-bound for the last month. No paddling—and we were beginning to feel it! But this weekend, finally, winter seems to have released its grip.

Here are a few photos from Saturday’s Manhattan circumnavigation (click on any photo to start slideshow):

From Pier 40, we paddle down to the Battery

Past North Cove

… with its reflecting surfaces

It’s a breezy day

We wait for the Staten Island ferry to leave

Here it goes!

We paddle past

… into the East River

Under the Manhattan Bridge

The Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges

Just here, we always turn around to look back

… at the classic view

Under the Williamsburg Bridge

Past the well-known red buoy in the East River

Midtown Manhattan

The ConEdison power plant in the sun

We continue up the Queens-side channel past Roosevelt Island

A Queens classic

A graceful apparition

Under the Queensboro Bridge

… with the sun at our backs

Toward the power plant

Colorful industrial

“Long Island”, the barge, is always there

Three stacks

Under the Roosevelt Island Bridge

We raft up for tea in the shelter of our favorite barge off Randalls Island

… then we continue under the Triborough (now RFK) Bridge

… up the Harlem River

The renovated Willis Avenue Bridge

Late afternoon sunshine

Golden rays

… follow us under

Macombs Dam Bridge

Geese make their unhappiness heard as we pass

The three mid-Harlem bridges

A few last rays light up the high points

University Heights Bridge

Lavender and blue dusk

Almost our of the Harlem! We pass under the Henry Hudson Bridge

… to the Amtrak bridge

… and under it out into the Hudson

The afterglow of the sunset is still in the sky

We approach the George Washington Bridge

… with the lights of Midtown Manhattan coming into view

A necklace of lights