By Vladimir Brezina
Under the Brooklyn Bridge in the East River, the waves are always fun… ;-)
For more photos from this Manhattan circumnavigation see here.
A contribution to Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge, Waves.
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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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The second picture made me gasp! Looks like the waves swallowed the kayaker!
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“Looks like…” is the operative phrase. Seen from a distance, even a 3-foot wave can hide a kayaker almost completely. Every wave has a corresponding trough… :-)
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I knew you’d have a good entry for this one! Love the two pictures together–glad it was the wave in the second one… ;-)
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A hole in the water into which kayakers fall… ;-)
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surf’s up
NY :-)
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There are in fact standing waves in the East River on which it is possible to surf… :-)
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That is some kind of chop.
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Ferry wakes mostly, amplified by the strong current…
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Yikes, it looks pretty choppy out there, especially the second one! :)
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It often is like that under the Brooklyn Bridge in the summer—it’s the wakes from all the traffic. Much calmer in winter…
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