{"id":3842,"date":"2016-05-08T15:39:38","date_gmt":"2016-05-08T19:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/?p=3842"},"modified":"2016-05-08T15:39:38","modified_gmt":"2016-05-08T19:39:38","slug":"what-happened-to-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/?p=3842","title":{"rendered":"What happened to Spring??"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thought March<\/em> was supposed to ‘come in like a lion’, not MAY\u00a0<\/em>! \u00a0Oh well. Just a short trip summary to report here to you \u00a0that neither snow<\/a><\/span> nor sleet<\/a><\/span>\u00a0nor gloomy, cold, rain-threatening May days will keep us from getting our boats, blades & bodies<\/a><\/span> into the water. The 54\u00b0 degree water at the Northport boat ramp was only about 2 degrees colder than the air yesterday but eight of us still managed to make an enjoyable outing over past Eatons Neck light & back.<\/p>\n

Though I will say Lynne definitely came up WAY, way short with her promise of bringing us some FL sunshine for our trip!<\/p>\n

\"OLYMPUS<\/p>\n

It still was a nice, scenic paddle. (even with that\u00a0completely<\/em> cloud-covered sky. \u00a0& when I say completely<\/em> covered I mean we could barely make out the bottom half of the powerplant<\/a><\/span> stacks on our way back).<\/p>\n

\"OLYMPUS<\/p>\n

\"Coming
Coming ’round the point into boat basin -photo by Ron S.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was a good exploratory day, mostly finding out that the entire peninsula surrounding the Eatons Neck basin is CoastGuard-controlled land with no private boat landings allowed.<\/p>\n

We did find a nice spot nearby right on the South side to take our break. & once we checked out that there were no shorebird nests in the area we might be disturbing we spread out & stretched out for an enjoyable snack time<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Another
Another Osprey notch in Ron’s belt -gonna need a bigger belt soon !<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Egrets
Egrets are waiting for Spring too \u00a0-photo credit Ron S.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
(we finally found some flatwater)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

& While our trip over had some steady broadside swells with occasional breaking whitecaps, the paddle back Eastward was pretty smooth going, with no adverse winds\/ currents. Maybe just the lightest mist of rain, if that.<\/p>\n

We must\u2019ve made good time there & back cause once outside the launch channel entrance we still had plenty of pre-K.Derby time to play & practice rolls & rescues<\/a><\/span>, both self & assisted.<\/p>\n

\"OLYMPUS
Troy being a little camera-shy here<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\"OLYMPUSrare picture of chris (being the only one upright in his boat)<\/p>\n

Glad we made it out yesterday as time is dwindling quickly for these Huntington Town launch locations. Only two more weekends left for us \u2018outsiders\u2019 before the resident-only rules clamp down hard on us.<\/p>\n

Then again, in these days of $5 cups of coffee, even a $20 parking fee (while somewhat excessive, imo), is still worth it to me for access to some of Long Islands nicest paddling waters.<\/p>\n

More pictures here:<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thought March was supposed to ‘come in like a lion’, not MAY\u00a0! \u00a0Oh well. Just a short trip summary to report here to you \u00a0that neither snow nor sleet\u00a0nor gloomy, cold, rain-threatening May days will keep us from getting our boats, blades & bodies into the water. The 54\u00b0 degree water at the Northport boat […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88891,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trip-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/88891"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3842"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3866,"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3842\/revisions\/3866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}