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animals australia crocodile kangaroo photography postaweek postaweek2015 treat weekly photo challenge we re back posted on august 28 2015 by vladimir brezina 57 comments by vladimir brezina we re back from a trip to tropical queensland australia and of course processing a couple of thousand photos here s a brief preview much more to come 57 comments posted in nature travel tagged animals australia birds photography queensland travel tropical tiny posted on june 27 2015 by vladimir brezina 6 comments by vladimir brezina tiny holds even tinier a contribution to ailsa s travel themed photo challenge tiny 6 comments posted in nature photography tagged animals crab photography postaweek postaweek2015 tiny travel weekly photo challenge squirrels and skvirels posted on february 24 2015 by vladimir brezina 35 comments by vladimir brezina on an overcast dull winter day in nyc s central park there is not much color and nothing moves except squirrels click on any photo to start slideshow and who knew that the word squirrel was so hard to pronounce see here so for days now johna and i have been saying skvirel to each other 35 comments posted in culture humor nature new york city tagged animals central park humor manhattan new york city photography pronunciation squirrel bountiful new york style posted on october 5 2014 by vladimir brezina 23 comments by vladimir brezina the pigeon lady today in rat park a contribution to ailsa s travel themed photo challenge bountiful another contribution is here 23 comments posted in new york city photography tagged animals birds bountiful feeding new york city park photography pigeons postaweek postaweek2014 travel weekly photo challenge travel theme inviting posted on september 29 2014 by vladimir brezina 19 comments by vladimir brezina paddling out from manhattan for the day we often find ourselves heading south to sandy hook nj our favorite spot to land there about half way down the bay side is a picturesque little island of wooded high ground that rather improbably rises above the otherwise flat sandy hook landscape indeed it is man made being the overgrown concrete ruins of an early 20th century military installation battery arrowsmith separating the island from the mainland of sandy hook is a salt marsh whenever we land at the island we always take a few minutes to walk round to the back to the edge of the salt marsh we go there to observe a mass display of invitation the marsh is fringed by a zone of bare or sometimes sparsely overgrown ground looking down closely we see that the ground is studded with holes large and small at first standing there we see nothing remarkable but within a minute or two we glimpse here and there a furtive movement then more and more and soon there is movement all around movement of a curiously stereotyped sort each hole is occupied by a fiddler crab there are both male and female crabs they are easy to distinguish the males have one greatly enlarged claw and they use this claw in a characteristic courtship display they stand next to their holes and repeatedly raise their large claws inviting the females to enter it is quite a sight to see the whole area come alive with hundreds of crabs all raising their claws simultaneously in their inviting gesture a contribution to ailsa s travel themed photo challenge inviting 19 comments posted in nature photography tagged animal behavior animals crab fiddler crabs inviting photography postaweek postaweek2014 sandy hook travel weekly photo challenge a kayayer s guide to hitchhikers posted on september 9 2014 by johna till johnson 45 comments by johna till johnson and vladimir brezina kayaking is often a solitary sport although paddlers sometimes go out in pairs and groups the quintessential kayaker is a bit of a loner many of us make long trips alone and prize the time we spend by ourselves but sometimes we inadvertently end up with fellow travelers when vlad and i were training for the everglades challenge we found ourselves navigating the florida bay in pitch darkness when all of a sudden a fish jumped out of the water and into my lap a few months later one of our fellow everglades challengers clewless topped that one when a shark jumped into his boat during the race there s also the recent story of a 6 foot alligator jumping into a canoe and of course many stories of cute or sometimes not so cute seals and sea lions hopping onto kayaks to hitch a ride the typical hitchhiker is less threatening while weaving through the mangrove tunnel of the ironically named broad creek during the everglades challenge a tree crab landed on the nose of my boat tree crabs are small an inch or two with shiny mottled brown or green shells this one was content to be my mascot for several minutes until he started to crawl slowly towards the cockpit i debated knocking him off with the paddle but that seemed unfair and might have hurt him so i gently nosed up to a mangrove root and he hopped off he wasn t the only crab who hitched a ride though returning from a recent trip to sandy hook i felt something skittering around in my cockpit when i stripped off the spray skirt i saw a small gray sea crab about the size of a quarter i tried to pick him up but he was too quick for me and i didn t want to risk crushing him so we made the trip home from sandy hook together with him occasionally reminding me of his presence with a tiny nip every time he nipped i yelped which amused vlad when i got back to pier 40 i rinsed him out of the boat with sea water i don t know whether he survived in the hudson but i like to think he did but the best hitchhiker story of all is one that happened to vlad i ll let him tell it vlad writes once upon a time when i was just a little kayaker i went for a paddle with my friends kathy and john like me they were big city paddlers with a folding kayak in their closet theirs was a formidable double klepper whose parts came in three heavy duty canvas bags we got to the river assembled our boats and cruised with the current for a few miles to our destination a grassy meadow where we planned to have a picnic lunch before packing the boats up again and taking a train back to the city everything worked out as planned as usual kathy had brought a lovely lunch which she laid out on the grass and in preparation for taking the klepper apart john carefully laid out its three bags as he did so out of the largest bag there stalked a huge brown cockroach he stood at the mouth of the bag surveying the meadow around antennae twitching obviously he d been living in the bag back in john and kathy s closet and we d brought him along for the ride we just stood there he descended regally from the bag and was soon lost from sight in the tall grass we didn t think much about it we had our lunch then started disassembling the boats an hour or two later we were feeling drowsy in the post prandial sunshine we were almost done john had packed most of the klepper s parts in the bags he was about to add the last parts and close up the bags and what did we then see come out of the tall grass heading straight towards the bags a huge brown cockroach this time we made a move all three of us tried to block him like football players but he zig zagged nimbly between our feet and took a leap into the open bag the bag was already carefully packed with parts we couldn t face taking them all out again and so the smart old cockroach rode back to the city back to his closet doubtless to tell his young cousins about his lovely sunday excursion to the country 45 comments posted in kayaking nature tagged animals cockroach crab everglades challenge hitchhiker kayaking shark weekly photo challenge dialogue posted on august 29 2014 by vladimir brezina 63 comments by vladimir brezina a contribution to this week s photo challenge dialogue 63 comments posted in nature photography tagged animals dialogue photography polar bear postaweek postaweek2014 snow leopard weekly photo challenge yawn travel theme endearing posted on august 11 2014 by vladimir brezina 59 comments by vladimir brezina ailsa s travel themed photo challenge this week is endearing i know people are expecting photos of cute babies and furry animals but i love my invertebrates cautious conch feisty fiddler crab serene sea slug 59 comments posted in nature photography tagged animals conch endearing fiddler crabs invertebrates photography postaweek postaweek2014 sea slug travel weekly photo challenge older posts copyright wind against current by vladimir brezina and johna till johnson is licensed under a creative commons attribution noncommercial noderivs 3 0 unported license search search for 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 our links johna s technology research vlad s photos vlad s scientific research recent posts a meditation on gratitude november 26 2025 the first leg june 6 2023 looks like they made it june 5 2023 more scenes from the northcountry may 30 2023 r2ak scenes from the northern lands may 29 2023 halfway there may 29 2023 and they re off may 28 2023 team trimoron heads west may 26 2023 sheltering at sea part 3 staten island to atlantic city june 28 2021 sheltering at sea part 2 escape from new york june 14 2021 sheltering at sea part 1 taking the leap june 7 2021 night on hart island may 30 2021 happy birthday vlad june 1 2020 solo trip to the yellow submarine may 26 2020 sail and sky composition 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