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Entries Tagged as 'Boating'

Urban paddling

September 4th, 2008 · Comments Off

Today I paddled with a local river conservation group in our downtown urban river. It was pretty cool. More photos on Flickr.

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Paddling and pedaling Governor’s Island

July 26th, 2008 · Comments Off

I happened to be free this weekend, and my friend JB told me about a special event at New Yorks’ Governor’s Island. It was “City of Water Day”, and paddlers were invited to visit the island under their own power. So I packed the canoe on top of the car and drove to Red Hook, […]

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Tags: Boating · Trip Reports

Trip Report: Acadia

October 8th, 2007 · Comments Off

Acadia trip with JB
10/4/07 to 10/8/07 (Columbus Day Weekend)
I had suggested this trip to my old friend JB as kind of a reliving of our younger days. We hadn’t travelled together in a few years, and I hadn’t been to Acadia since 2003. A young person I knew spent a weekend in Acadia in late […]

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Tags: Bicycling · Boating · Camping · Hiking · Outdoors · Trip Reports

Family Vacation: Cape Cod 2007, part I

August 8th, 2007 · Comments Off

This year we returned to Cape Cod, this time decked out with bicycles, canoe, and popup camper. This was the first big trip for the popup, five nights in Nickerson State Park.

Yes, that’s the whole family in the canoe, paddling Cliff Pond at Nickerson State Park.

Here’s Son getting all tied up:

Daughter picked a water lily […]

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Tags: Boating · Camping · Family · Family Vacations · Travel

Daughter takes the helm

July 5th, 2007 · Comments Off

Daughter steers my friend’s sailboat.

Below is the whole crew: JB, Daughter, Son, and Sister.

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Tags: Boating · Daughter · Outdoors

Purgatory Chasm

June 17th, 2007 · Comments Off

In what has become an annual rite, we spent Father’s Day on a hike. We chose that perennial favorite, Purgatory Chasm. One of the cool things about Purgatory Chasm is all the little nooks and crannies to explore:

After the hike, we went to a nearby pond for our first all-family canoe trip. All told, things […]

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Tags: Boating · Family · Hiking · Travel

Canoe

May 15th, 2007 · Comments Off

I’ve recently gotten a new toy … I am now a canoeist (canoer?). Looking forward to getting it out on the water …

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Tags: Boating · Outdoors

Cape Cod day-by-day

August 8th, 2006 · Comments Off

Cape cod. We’re setting off for “the Cape” for a week. There’s actually a fabulous wealth of activities to do with kids on the Cape, so we have no worry of getting bored. I made reservations for a Monday canoe trip with a naturalist at the Cape Cod National Seashore with Daughter, but otherwise we […]

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Tags: Boating · Family · Family Vacations · Travel