Sparkill Kayaking

Jason and I went Kayaking tonight. We've gone on a couple adventures together before. See here and here.

Here's our route map. We stared on Sparkill, in Piermont, NY:

We paddled downstream on Sparkill towards the Hudson. Along the way we spotted a Heron:

Eventually we got out to the Hudson and paddled south to another little creek. We tried going around the oxbow, but we ran out of water about 75% of the way around and had to paddle back out. It was so shallow that we were getting stuck on the bottom. The tide was going out, and I was worried we were going to have to walk our kayaking back out through the muck. Thankfully, that was not the case.

We paddled on as the sun began to set:

After going as far as we dared, we raced back out on to the Hudson. Here's Jason with the Tappan Zee bridge in the background:

The water on the Hudson was a bit choppy, but nothing we couldn't handle. What fun!

At the Crit

Here are some pictures I took at the Rockleigh Criterium:

These guys were movin'!

Sunday Rocket Ride, etc.

I set out on Sunday to do the Rocket Ride, but got dropped pretty quickly. I rode to Nyack nonetheless, then decided to ride South in hopes of meeting up with a Rockland club ride that had gone from Nyack to the GWB and back. I did run into a couple of the guys when I got back to Toga! at around 1pm.

At 51 miles, this is the longest ride of done this summer, and I could tell!

Here's the route - East is up in this image:

Love, exciting and new....

I stopped in at Toga and saw this last week:

I'm going to have to get another job to pay for it!

Last Thursday's club ride

First ride with the bike club this year: