By Vladimir Brezina
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It’s high time to drink up that coffee and get going!
2012 Long Island Circumnavigation
A contribution to this week’s Photo Challenge, Time.
By Vladimir Brezina
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It’s high time to drink up that coffee and get going!
2012 Long Island Circumnavigation
A contribution to this week’s Photo Challenge, Time.
By Vladimir Brezina
Fire Island, NY. From our 2012 kayak circumnavigation of Long Island.
A contribution to Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge, Land meets Water.
By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Containers.
The key to efficient expedition kayaking is the successful management of containers. It’s taken us a while to learn that lesson…
How will all this stuff fit into those two little kayaks??
It’s a matter of the right containers
(2011 Hudson River paddle from Albany to NYC)
to be able to find things when we need them
(2012 Long Island circumnavigation)
and quickly set up camp before the evening mosquitoes swarm
(2012 Long Island circumnavigation)
or make dinner on a dark beach before the tide comes flooding in…
By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is The Golden Hour.
When I saw this week’s theme, I thought, how timely! For today (and tomorrow) is the second round of this year’s Manhattanhenge, the culmination of a very special golden hour in Manhattan. (Here are the photos from the first round of Manhattanhenge in May, and from 2011.) And I was going to urge all New Yorkers reading this post to go and see it. And even-out-of towners—you’ve still got a few hours to get on that plane so as to be in Manhattan by 8: 23 PM EDT ;-)
Unfortunately, a solid overcast, with occasional showers and thunderstorms, is forecast for both today and tomorrow. Indeed, as I write this, the rain is already beginning.
It will be a wash.
So, instead, here is another golden hour that I remember fondly.
It was last summer, during our kayak circumnavigation of Long Island. We were camped at the easternmost point of Long Island, at Montauk, in a grove of trees that faced the rising sun. The light that flooded our camp that morning was truly golden. And equally golden was the extra hour of sleep that we allowed ourselves that morning after our exertions of the day before…
By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Home. We’ve already posted one response, but here’s another.
Our home away from home—
—on a beach at Lloyds Neck, Long Island, NY
—on the banks of the Hudson River at Stockport Middle Ground
—on Magdalen Island, near Saugerties, NY
—on the Hudson River at Denning Point, Beacon, NY
—in Nickerson State Park, Cape Cod, MA
—at Jones Inlet, South Shore of Long Island, NY
—on Fire Island, NY
—at Montauk Point, NY
—in Sunken Meadow State Park, on the North Shore of Long Island, NY
And now, our home away from home awaits in its bag, ready for this year’s adventures!
By Vladimir Brezina
On A Word In Your Ear , Skinnywench’s photo challenge this week is Cloud.
As I said in my first response to the challenge, I particularly remember two recent days on which a dramatic, constantly changing cloudscape absolutely dominated the scene. The first response showed the first day. Here is the second.
On Day 5 of our Long Island kayak circumnavigation last summer, we were approaching the eastern tip of Long Island when the clouds began to get interesting. The spectacular thunderstorm hit just as were rounding Montauk Point, the easternmost, most exposed point of our journey—
The full story of that day is here.
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.
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