By Vladimir Brezina
Last Sunday, the current was predicted to ebb through the morning, then flood in the afternoon. Perfect for a paddle south, through New York Harbor out to sea!
But then where, exactly? Round Staten Island? Or to Sandy Hook? But we’d been there just two weeks before…
This summer, we’ve been hearing a lot about whales. By all accounts, whales have been positively frolicking about, just outside the harbor. A whale-watching boat, the American Princess, has reported sightings almost every day. And many of these sightings, of feeding humpbacks as well as pods of bottlenose dolphins, have been off the Rockaways, just a mile or two from shore.
So that’s where we decided to paddle on Sunday.
In the event, we didn’t see any whales. (The American Princess didn’t either, that day.) Perhaps fortunately, neither did we see any of the great white sharks that (we read later) were present in that same area at the same time…
But it was a great ocean paddle nevertheless. Here are a few photos—
Vladimir Brezina (RIP) 
Johna Till Johnson
Wind Against Current 