Search results for: “kayaking”
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Observations from the first two years of kayaking
I’ve been kayaking for two years and one month. My first post about kayaking is a sprawling post about my first two paddles but one that I’m really happy I wrote and published. In it I show exactly the types of things a new paddler worries about; falling in, being cold, getting in and out…
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Kayaking Merli-Sarnoski County Park in May 2016
When choosing a location to go for a paddle, don’t be fooled by the size of the body of water. Enormous lakes aren’t necessarily any more fun than the small ponds. Merli-Sarnoski’s Mountain Mud Pond is an excellent example of this. The entire shoreline of the pond could be paddled in under an hour yet…
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Missed a grand opportunity to record a toad chorus audio bit while kayaking over the weekend.
Missed a grand opportunity to record a toad chorus audio bit while kayaking over the weekend.
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Went kayaking. Fell into the lake catching a snapping turtle. Worth it.
Went kayaking. Fell into the lake catching a snapping turtle. Worth it.
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Kayaking in Back Bay, Sandbridge, Virginia
In late-September Eliza and I drove to Sandbridge, Virginia for two weeks with a bunch of friends, food, beer, and of course the kayaks. The first week was a wet, raining, windy disgusting mess. But that didn’t stop my niece from Florida, Leyana, and I from getting out and doing some paddling in the rain.…
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Kayaking Dunn Pond in September
I shared a few photos from my paddle in August and I plan on sharing some from paddles in October, November, and December. Hold me to it. I don’t mind getting cold to catalog how the pond changes over the next few months this fall. Here are a few photos from last Friday, September 11th.…
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Photos that will make you want to go kayaking
If the kayking photos that I publish to my blog or Instagram aren’t enough to get you into the water perhaps 500px’s latest post will help.
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Kayaking Quaker Lake and Lake Carey
Last weekend my friend Eric and I went paddling around Quaker Lake and Lake Carey; each in northeastern PA pretty close to the New York border and each equally different. Quaker Lake is a beautifully clear glacial lake that does not allow speed boats or jet skis and has some really well kept and manicure homes…
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Kayaking Dunn Pond
I shared a photo on Instagram/Facebook of a recent paddle on White Oak Pond and within seconds a perfect stranger suggested I paddle Dunn Pond due to its similarities. I love White Oak Pond so the first opportunity I had I went to paddle Dunn Pond. I’m glad I did. I ended up shooting more…
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Kayaking with my nephew
Last Friday I was able to take my nephew out in my Oru Kayak for an hour or so. It was a blast.
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Slowing down my hike to see new things
I’ve spent a lot of time outdoors in my area. A lot. Especially when I was younger I was outside more than I was inside. And now that I’m older my main hobbies are hiking, kayaking and photography. All of which force me to explore. This weekend I was pleasantly surprised to have seen a…
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How I create my weekly link posts
With my What I saw this week series of posts hitting #29 this week I thought I’d take a second to share how these posts do on my site, how I create them, how I choose what I will link to outside of these posts. These posts are some of my most popular week-to-week. My…
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Hey, umm, Siri?
I was happy this week to see that the topic of how far behind Siri is came up on many tech blogs. It is a topic I’ve thought, but not wrote, a lot about. In 2012 Siri was ahead on ability, but behind on speed. Earlier in 2016, prior to WWDC, I wrote a WWDC…
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What I saw this week #13: September 30, 2016
I’m resurrecting an old series of posts that I used to publish here called "What I saw this week". In this series I’d publish a single post per week with some of the things I came across that week that I thought were interesting. It allowed me to link to interesting things without posting too…
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Creating your own hiking checklist
Have you ever bolted out the door to go hiking (or kayaking, photographing, cycling, it doesn’t matter) and when you arrive at your location you realize you forgot something at home? Say, a camera battery or a water bottle? Here is a simple way to reduce the number of times this happens to you: make a checklist.…
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Hiking every trail in Lackawanna State Park
For several weeks I’ve been slowly tracing my way through the trails found within the confines of Lackawanna State Park and I’m just about halfway through my goal of hiking every trail. The park boasts over 18-miles of hiking and 15-miles of multi-use trials (hiking, horseback riding, biking) giving me plenty of places to explore. Counting…
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How many hats can you wear?
Maria Langer, on her blog, on owning and operating her own small business: I am the owner of a small business, Flying M Air, LLC. I do just about everything for the company except maintain the aircraft: schedule flights, preflight the aircraft, fly, take payment from passengers, manage the drug testing program, work with the FAA,…
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What Photos for OS X and iOS will be able to automatically detect in iOS 10
Alternate title: My hopes are low for object detection in the new Photos but I still have hope Reddit user vista980622 dig some digital sleuthing and may have come up with the list of over 4,000 objects, memories, and facial expressions that Photos for iOS and OS X will be able to mine all on its own…
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Improving Photos for OS X and iOS and iCloud Photo Library
I’ll start out this post, as most empathic developers would, by saying that I realize how hard syncing is. It is incredibly hard to get right. The fact that it works at all is magic. It is amazing. And I’m tickled that I even have it. That being said, we’re a few years away from…
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Further iCloud Photo Library observations
On March 29th I began syncing to iCloud Photo Library using Photos on OS X. Today, over a month later, I’m just over halfway done. For context, you may want to read Photo stats and observations, and A few iCloud Photo Library observations. As with those last two posts I’m going to provide a laundry…
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Paddling for snapping turtles
Check out this guy (or gal). A screenshot from a GoPro video. This past Saturday afternoon we had some beautiful weather and so I went kayaking at a nearby lake. This time of year is an incredible time to paddle since every animal is very active, making nests, waking up from the winter, preparing for…
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Is GoPro doomed?
Those that follow along here on my blog know that I love my GoPro. And I “only” have the HERO 3. See this, this, this, this, and this for examples of me playing around with my GoPro. GoPro’s stock price and sales figures are plummeting. And as I sit here, going over everything they have, and…
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Riversport Rapids
Wow, this place looks incredible. Eugene Buchanan at Canoe & Kayak: Riversport Rapids, Oklahoma City’s new $45.2 million whitewater rafting and kayaking center, is holding its grand opening celebration May 7-8 after nearly 10 years of planning and building. Included in the amenities: the world’s highest-volume, fully adjustable pumped freestyle feature, at 1,200 to 1,400 cfs.…
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Around the Isle of Corsica
Great video of three women kayakers circumnavigating Corsica: Unknown by most sea kayakers, the French island of Corsica is a stunning gem of caves, sea stacks, beaches and cliffs set in the warm waters of the Mediterranean Sea. Last year, filmmaker Erin Bastian recruited her friends, Georgian Maxwell and Beck Hancock, to circumnavigate the island’s…
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The Apple Watch is the original iPhone
I really liked this comparison by Michael D. Shear for the New York Times and I think it is spot on. My wife has an Apple Watch. I’d call her a “light user” of the Watch. She wears it every day but mainly uses it for glancing at text messages. There are a myriad of…
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Paddling White Oak Pond in July
Last paddling season I managed to squeeze a paddle in a few times per week. Perhaps I did this because it was new to me (last year was my first time kayaking) and I didn’t mind folding and unfolding the Oru 8 times a week. This season I’ve gotten out a little less so as…
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Shooting San Francisco with GoPro
This summer I’ve found myself shooting with my GoPro Hero3 a lot. And not just while kayaking. I really dig the perspective and most of what is captured is fairly Instagrammable. I’ll also mention that the GoPro form factor is less obtrusive than the iPhone in that people hardly notice the GoPro at all. In…
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100 words 011
I’m happy to see Joe Casabona pick up the 100 words torch. Dark Sky, one of my most-used applications on my iPhone, got updated yesterday. The update is terrific. It has the same information as it had before — except it is far easier to digest. It also has the added benefit of being more…
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SeaKayakPodcasts.com coming back Sept 1
My favorite kayaking podcast at SeaKayakPodcast.com is coming back on September 1st. Host Simon Willis: We have recorded quite a few fascinating chats and the first will be an absolute cracker. The new podcasts start on Monday 1st September. We‘ll hear from Scott Donaldson who spent almost three months in a kayak, paddling 1300 miles…
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Walking the Glen Gour to Strontian
Simon Willis, someone who has been a huge inspiration to my kayaking endeavors with his Sea Kayak Podcasts series, recently went for a hike. I love this bit: Show me an horizon, an overlapping series of ridge lines or a valley stretching into the distance and I yearn to discover what lies behind those hills,…
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What Matt Krizan learned paddling the California coast
Matt Krizan paddled the California coast in a 36-day expedition. Dave Shivley wrote about what Krizan learned for Canoe & Kayak. Here is what happened on day two: Four miles offshore, the zip-tie linking his left steering pedal to the rudder snaps. Krizan must act. He spots a channel through 8-foot faces breaking on what…
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A paddle between storms
Last night there was a thunderstorm warning for our county. I desperately wanted to get out kayaking since I hadn’t all weekend. So, I opened up Dark Sky and found a slot of around an hour in between storms and I went for it. I’m glad I did. Easily the best paddle I’ve had so far.…
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I’m a kayaker
Last weekend, for the first time in my life, I went kayaking! I loved it so much, I went again the next day. For the last few months I’ve spent a lot of time reading, watching videos, listening to podcasts — all about paddling. And I have to say that so much of that information…
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Systematic #89
I was very happy to be a guest on Systematic #89. Brett Terpstra and I discussed building things behind closed doors and in the open (which I’ve recently covered a little on our company blog), about our favorite services shutting down, about watercolor painting, kayaking, and our three picks of the week. For those wondering,…
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How I use Unmark
Some have asked how I use Unmark, our to-do application for bookmarks. We only just recently redesigned, rebuilt, and released Unmark so I waited a few weeks to write this post until my habits formed more clearly. Every link I see goes into Unmark On average I will see between 2 and 50 links per…
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Some non-tech podcasts I’ve enjoyed lately
I think when some of us hear the word podcast we immediately think of those that deal with technology or those in which a few tech nerds sit around and chat about tech-related topics. But podcasts are so much more than tech. Though they’ve been around a little while they are still a revolution. They…
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Teach a friend about RSS
For the last few years I’ve been hearing chatter that RSS "is dead", yet, I still continue to use it every single day. So, I thought – lets turn this on its head. Lets bring RSS "back" by teaching at least one friend how to use it. Why? The vast majority of people that surf…
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Camping at Keen Lake in Waymart, Pennsylvania
Spending five days outdoors, sleeping "on the ground", and dealing with nature may not appeal to some – but I thoroughly enjoy it. Sure, some of the amenities of home invariably end up coming with us, but I still consider it roughing it compared to my daily lifestyle. Yearly camping trips seem to be the…