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Another Peek at Purple
Ailsa’s travel theme this week is purple. And it was so much fun the first time, we just had to do it again. Did you know?… Purple is the hardest color for the eye to discriminate. Okay, stop reading...
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Happy Campers
You never outgrow summer camp. Not if you’re an ACA member, anyway. Just a one-hour drive from the concrete jungle of New York City puts you in something close to the real thing—spiders, poison ivy...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Zigzag
Sunday morning, 7:30. Nobody out here but us and the fish. Huge schools of bunker were being chased by hungry ocean-spawned bluefish. What a show! Video clip here: Better than the Rockettes, huh? So...
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Super Duper
Flashback to December 29, 1968. In this photo, Earth is about five degrees above the horizon…of the moon. No, we didn’t take it. We were eight, and probably busy doing something else. Plus, our little...
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Travel Theme: Bountiful
“Color showing up in spots here,” writes our photographer/kayaker/eagle-stalking friend Michael, in Albany. “Hit paydirt today in the central Adirondacks!” Yep, we’d say so. All photos courtesy of the...
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Autumn Light
We have many happy memories of kayak camping last October in Hudson River Islands State Park with our friends Vlad and Johna (aka, wind against current): The flaming colors. Honking flocks of geese...
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Travel Theme: Colorful
This week, Ailsa’s travel theme is colorful. Hmmm, bad timing. Our autumn leaves have died, and we’ve gone bleak. Photos from today, 11/23. The boathouse at Horseshoe Harbor is in hibernation mode...
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Block Island: Above and Beyond
Okay then! Nor’easters result from converging air masses. But what happens if you mashup two weekly theme/challenge things into one post? Does your blog explode? At the very least, it might help us...
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Travel Theme: Doorways
Ailsa’s travel theme this week is doorways. Which transports us back to our 2013 kayak-camping trip in Penobscot Bay, Maine. Above, a painted sailboat breaks free of its frame on the wall of the...
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Weekly Travel Theme: Youngsters
Ah, wide-eyed youth! They’re everywhere in Springtime. In the photo above, baby owls just arrived at a friend of a friend’s horse barn (they have since grown up to become a formidable mouse-patrol...
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Grey, Traveling
Kuno makes his way home via MetroNorth. We’ve been traveling and paddling in new places this summer—which means Bird Camp boarding for our African Grey parrot. Here, the annoyed woman across the aisle...
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Manhattan Circumnavigation 2015
Saturday was hot and sunny—perfect for paddling 28 nautical miles around the gleaming isle of Manhattan with 157 other kayakers. The event’s officially called “The Yonkers Paddling and Rowing Club...
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Handpicked
There’s only way to get your hands on a blue crab: Go out and catch one. (Or dozens, day after day—as our new friends on Tangier Island, VA, explained, when we paddled there in June.) Here’s a little...
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