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d back again to manhattan here is a selection of photos from the trip continue reading 37 comments posted in kayaking new york city tagged new york harbor photography sandy hook sea kayaking ederle swim 2013 posted on august 27 2013 by vladimir brezina 49 comments by vladimir brezina on sunday a week ago august 18th i found myself once more in my kayak accompanying a long distance swimmer through new york harbor it was the day of this year s ederle swim a 17 5 mile open water swim from manhattan to sandy hook new jersey organized by nyc swim this year s swim was in fact the centennial swim since the first successful swim over that course after a number of failed attempts occurred a hundred years ago almost to the day on august 28th 1913 my swimmer this year was barbara held from san diego california having completed her triple crown of open water swimming the manhattan island marathon swim the catalina channel and the english channel barbara was looking for new challenges continue reading 49 comments posted in kayaking new york city sports tagged ederle swim kayaking long distance swim manhattan new york harbor nyc swim open water swim sandy hook yesterday s sandy hook paddle posted on august 4 2013 by vladimir brezina 31 comments by vladimir brezina it s our routine weekends we paddle and when the tidal currents say go south we go south and unless we can think of something more ambitious that means sandy hook but each trip is different the sea and the sky have a different look and feel each time we see different ships in the harbor i can t resist taking photos to capture it all here are a few from yesterday s trip click on any photo to start slideshow we inspect a new a very useful green buoy that the coast guard has placed in the harbor we pass over the bay ridge flats among the anchored barges a yellow buoy for a change looking back at manhattan who will win this one it wasn t at all clear which ship was closer to us now we have the answer we follow the maersk container ship out to sea we pass under the verrazano narrows bridge we wait for traffic to pass in the ambrose channel even bigger traffic time to start across lonely romer shoal light on sandy hook we climb up to our favorite ruins for lunch ruins with a view prickly pear cactus now grows in the gun emplacements view in the other direction toward atlantic highlands in the salt marsh below the ruins crab holes and fiddler crabs with terns wheeling above we paddle back cormorant apartment building with plenty of tenants sun on the sea water texture romer shoal light again all alone in the sea red buoy it s hard to capture the feel of the waves but sometimes it s something like this late afternoon seascape we pass coney island and back under the verrazano narrows bridge the city is in sight sunset light on the water just at sunset the red sun appears from behind the cloud on the horizon next to the statue of liberty 31 comments posted in kayaking new york city tagged new york harbor photography sandy hook sea kayaking if it s summer it s time for a sandy hook paddle posted on july 8 2013 by vladimir brezina 55 comments by johna till johnson photos by vladimir brezina yesterday was a perfect summer s day well if your definition of perfect includes placid weather blue skies and hot sunshine mine does if i m on the water and can cool off with a roll or two vlad is not so happy in the heat and prefers more exciting conditions as you ll see we both got our preferences we decided to go for a long trip long being anything more than 30 nautical miles not something we ve done much of lately the currents dictated it would be to sandy hook and back returning after dark again a pleasant change of pace and the conditions were calm a light breeze from the south which would be in our faces on the way down cooling us down then helping us along on the return well not helping exactly as you ll hear continue reading 55 comments posted in kayaking new york city tagged new york harbor sandy hook sea kayaking weekly photo challenge the sign says take two posted on may 31 2013 by vladimir brezina 43 comments by vladimir brezina this week s photo challenge is the sign says kayaking out on open water we meet few signs but as soon as we come in to land signs abound some of them do their best to be unavoidable nevertheless we sometimes manage to avoid them some years ago erik baard and i paddled down from manhattan and landed on the beach near the northwestern tip of sandy hook we had a leisurely lunch took a stroll along the beach lazed about and after a couple of hours were ready to paddle back to manhattan but just before we launched we thought that we might just out of curiosity find out what those two big signs that stood there facing away from us said and not far from that spot was another complementary set of signs that helped complete the image of sandy hook at least in those pre hurricane sandy days our first interpretation of the sign says was here 43 comments posted in humor kayaking new york city photography tagged kayaking photography postaweek postaweek2013 sandy hook the sign says weekly photo challenge beach mysteries posted on may 24 2012 by vladimir brezina 18 comments by vladimir brezina on the beach on the northwest tip of sandy hook under the skeleton tower with the ospreys nest on our last kayak trip to sandy hook a couple of week ago after lunch under the skeleton tower at the northwest tip of the hook we went for a walk along the beach and we saw a number of strange sights can you help us identify these 1 pirate treasure 2 crop circles except in sand a miniature bikers rally 3 pill organizer of the ancient inhabitants of sandy hook their week or month had 16 days apparently 4 tiny foxholes _______________________________________________________ updates may 26 and may 28 2012 we have solid identifications for at least three of these mysteries 1 jim w says it is the top of a breasting float its about 4 feet deep in the sand they are used between the ships and piers at the passenger ship terminals you used to be able to see them rafted together in the empty slips before the elevated highway was torn down can t do any better than that thanks jim 2 this actually is one we had a pretty good idea about as soon as we saw it and a number of our readers have come to the same conclusion these are classic horseshoe crab tracks part of that beach consists of shallow basins that obviously fill up with water at high tide possibly only an usually high tide and drain again at low tide and in these basins the horseshoe crabs clearly had a killer party their tracks were all over the place some with dead crabs lying at the ends of them 3 marcus says number 3 is a section of a composite piling they probably sawed it off after driving the piling to refusal the white bits are fiberglass tension elements and the rest is an epoxy plastic resin it resists marine borers and doesn t spall like concrete http www fhwa dot gov engineering geotech pubs 04107 chapt2 cfm 4 these are clearly burrows or holes made by animals of some kind most likely insects or crabs fiztrainer suggests sand crabs see comments so crowdsourcing really works without our readers help we were completely stumped by 1 and 3 and not really sure about 4 18 comments posted in nature tagged beach beachcombing found objects sandy hook and once more to sandy hook posted on may 11 2012 by vladimir brezina 15 comments by vladimir brezina last weekend the currents in new york harbor dictated a southbound kayak trip so we paddled once more down to sandy hook here is a slideshow of the highlights this slideshow requires javascript it was the weekend of the supermoon and the currents were strange the flood on the way back to manhattan was much stronger than usual but the ebb on the way to sandy hook was paradoxically much weaker for johna s feelings toward the staten island ferry see her last post the individual photos are here 15 comments posted in kayaking new york city tagged kayaking new york city new york harbor photography sandy hook 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 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