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Travel Theme: Walls
By Vladimir Brezina Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week is Walls. Kayaking around the highly urban New York Harbor, we pass by many colorful and inspirational walls… More on the marine art...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Home
By Vladimir Brezina This week’s Photo Challenge is Home. On our kayak trips, we paddle past homes worth millions as well as some that are modest, but offer incomparable views and fresh sea breezes—...
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A Word A Week Challenge: Industrial
By Vladimir Brezina Over on A Word In Your Ear, Sue’s A Word A Week Challenge this week is Industrial. Paddling through New York Harbor, the ecosystem that we observe is not Nature, but Industry. Where...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Forward
By Vladimir Brezina This week’s Photo Challenge is Forward.
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Travel Theme: Bridges
By Vladimir Brezina Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week is Bridges. Ailsa asks, “Are you ready to cross the bridge when you come to it?” But we follow quite another set of routes through...
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Florida Paddling
By Vladimir Brezina Look what’s floating by in the turquoise-green water! I collect them all to take them home. But, sadly, the brilliant colors are evanescent…
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First NYC Paddle Since Sandy!
By Vladimir Brezina and Johna Till Johnson Four months is a long time. And it’s been just over four months since we’ve been out on NYC waterways—since our trip to the Gowanus Canal right before...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Lunchtime!
By Vladimir Brezina This week’s Photo Challenge is Lunchtime. When lunchtime rolls around, we’ve already been paddling for hours—and we are starving! Sometimes we land. Over the years, we’ve had lunch...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Lunchtime, Take Two
By Vladimir Brezina This week’s Photo Challenge is Lunchtime. I’ve already shown what our lunchtime very often looks like. And continuing the same theme, here is today’s lunch! It was snowing. But...
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Travel Theme: Smoke and Mirrors
By Vladimir Brezina Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week is Smoke and Mirrors, in honor of Smoke and Mirrors Day (where do these designations come from?), “which celebrates all things...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Color
By Vladimir Brezina This week’s Photo Challenge is Color. Kayaking can be a very colorful sport!
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We’re Back!
By Vladimir Brezina We’re back from our week-long kayak trip, safe and sound—well, except for the usual collection of sunburn blisters and cuts and scrapes and insect bites… Thank you so much,...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Escape, Take Two
By Vladimir Brezina This week’s photo challenge is Escape. We’ve already posted photos of the sort of passive escapees that we see on our kayak travels, but here’s a more active one… This happens...
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Bigger IS Better!
By Vladimir Brezina As with my kayaks My Feathercraft folding kayaks. Left to right: K-Light (1990s), K1 (2000s), Heron (2012). Increasing in overall length from 12′ 10″ (K-Light) to 17′ 7″ (Heron). so...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: The Sign Says, Take Two
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...
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Manhattan Island Marathon Swim 2013: Photos
By Vladimir Brezina Each summer, NYC Swim organizes a series of shorter and longer swims in New York City’s waterways. The premier event is the Manhattan Island Marathon Swim (MIMS), a 28.5-mile race...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: The World Through My Eyes
By Vladimir Brezina This week’s Photo Challenge is The World Through Your Eyes. Kayaking through New York Harbor, you never know what you’ll see…
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Thank You, NYC Swim
By Vladimir Brezina Unlike Johna, I’ve been reluctant to write too much about myself on Wind Against Current. Who would want to read that stuff? And now I don’t have to write anything—NYC Swim has...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Nostalgic
By Vladimir Brezina This week’s Photo Challenge is Nostalgic. Kayaking through New York City’s waterways and becoming aware of the maritime traditions of the harbor, it’s hard not to become nostalgic...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: The Golden Hour
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...
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