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All posts for the month October, 2013

Fall Neutrals

Posted by 2geeks3knots on October 10, 2013
Posted in: Around the Sound, Kayaking. 6 Comments

FishingEchoBay

Autumn colors can be vibrant. But some of the most beautiful are very, very subtle.

Here are pics from our Sunday paddle from Larchmont (Westchester) to City Island (the Bronx), and back. The water was delightfully warm, the brisk October wind most welcome on the way to brunch but a real challenge, post-herb-dusted-French-fries! On this foggy day, nature didn’t provide color—we humans did.

HHYCfall

Fall has arrived at the boathouse

SchoolBoats

The HHYC school boats get a well-deserved rest

Yonder

City Island THATAWAY, 6 nm West…

migration

A flock of Canadian geese fly over as we launch

NeonAlex

Alex passes Echo Bay, New Rochelle. Home is a fogged-in hi-rise… (pssst…hi, Kuno!)

FallCormorants

Cormorants on rocks near Glen Island contemplate migrating…

chop

Fall colors…on Jean’s kayak!

CityIslandBridge

High tide provides enough water to paddle under our “short-cut bridge” between High and City Islands

HorseshoeCrab

A horseshoe crab greets us at City Island

BeaBeaming

Bea beams—it’s her first kayak landing at City Island. She’s an awesome HHYC paddler, naturalist, educator, and NYC marathoner. AND she’s wearing The World’s Orange-est Hat!

FlipHorseshoe

“Female,” declares Bea. The evidence: a lack of big-clawed clinginess. (Yup.)

Leaves

Autumn leaves on Cross Street

Harvest

Butternut squash thrives in a City Island “raised” garden—raised 3 feet above the driveway!

JackOLanterns

Jack o’ Lanterns on the corner of Cross St and City Island Avenue

ThumbsUp

Bea at brunch mecca

MenuBoard

Colorful Sunday brunch specials

sandwich

Butternut squash, apple, basil and cheddar sandwich—i.e., delicious fuel for paddling back home!

Goodies

Pastries at Sugar & Spice

GlenMarina

On the way home, we ducked in through the marina behind Glen Island

MarinaBridge

Paddling under the bridge to Glen Island

BlueMigration

As the sun sets, another wave of migrating geese welcomes us back to HHYC

Down The Drain

Posted by 2geeks3knots on October 7, 2013
Posted in: Beyond Words, Kayaking. 3 Comments

We went paddling yesterday. But nothing like THIS. (We’ll say it again: Gotta love a plastic boat!)

That’s kayaker Ben Marr rocketing down a concrete drainage ditch into Lions Bay, British Columbia, at 34 miles per hour. Good bracing skills!  Judgment, meh.

BayCycling the Hudson

Posted by 2geeks3knots on October 3, 2013
Posted in: Beyond Words. Tagged: , , . 4 Comments

voilaIt’s not every day you get to witness a miracle on your lunch hour.  Jean lucked out, as her office building is right across the West Side Highway from Pier 66, aka, the “Manhattan Arrival” point of Judah Schiller, The First Person To Bike Across The Hudson River From Hoboken In About 15 Minutes Or So.  If he has his way, there will be many more.
“Our objective is to take biking to a new, aquatic frontier for sport, recreation and transportation,” Schiller is quoted in the press kit someone thrust into Jean’s hands as she pretended to be important. “Water biking may serve as a viable form of bike commuting in cities with navigable waterways.” OK, you decide… watch video here:

As part of BayCycle Project’s initiative to bring water biking to the public, you can nominate cities for the 2014 tour and sign up for a chance to be one of the first to ride for BayCycle Project. To participate, go to www.baycycleproject.com.  More pics from today’s festivities are here. Click to begin slideshow.

Biking on Water

Posted by 2geeks3knots on October 2, 2013
Posted in: Beyond Words, Kayaking. 3 Comments

OK, New Yorkers– think you’ve seen everything? How ’bout somebody biking on water??  On October 3 (tomorrow!), Judah Schiller, Founder of BayCycle Project, will be the first person to bike across the Hudson River, showing the world that biking across bodies of water is possible—even where there are no bridges or bike lanes!  Watch the video here:

Judah has already shown this can be done with the first-ever San Francisco Bay crossing that recently took place on Friday, September 27th. Accomplishing again what was once thought impossible, Judah will set out from Hoboken, NJ, and bike across the Hudson River arriving in Manhattan (right across from Jean’s office– WOOHOO!).

BayCycle Project is the first U.S. organizing body and community for “water biking,” an innovative new sport that “combines the adventure and health benefits of bike riding with the dynamic and ever-changing terrain of water.” BayCycle Project is bringing water biking to everyone, launching to other U.S. cities, including Miami, San Diego, Los Angeles, and Portland in 2013 and internationally by 2014.