2010-04-24 – Passaic River – In/Out from South Orange Ave.

‘Twas a beautiful Saturday in late April, upper 60s with just a few wispy clouds in the sky.  With a few hours in the middle of the day to kill, I decided to take a quick kayak trip to enjoy the weather and the blossoming spring foliage.  With Kathy working at the Habitat for Humanity Restore I [...]

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2010-04-20 – Hackensack River Meadowlands Between the Spurs of the NJ Turnpike

I discovered this access point to a kayak trip recently while surfing the Internet.  I knew getting into the water at this location would be fairly easy and accessible.  The issue was the so-called water.  We were to venture to a new river basin in a much more industrialized portion of the so-called Garden State. [...]

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2010-04-04 – Passaic to Rockaway to Whippany Rivers past Sharkeys Dump – Solo In/Out from Pio Costa on Bloomfield Ave.

It’s an extremely hot and sunny Easter Sunday here in New Jersey, yet the rivers are still flooded from last week’s rains so I figured I would complete this 4 day weekend with my 3rd kayak paddling adventure.  Today I decided to enter the Passaic River at the Pio Costa industrial park off of Bloomfield [...]

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