Gary Nickerson
November 26, 2006

This weekend, Carol and I took a little day trip to Brookhaven, NY to the Wertheim National Wildlife Refuge (WNWR), http://www.fws.gov/refuges/profiles/index.cfm?id=52561, and stopped at nearby Glacier Bay Sports,http://www.glacierbaysports.com/index.php, to inquire about kayaking on the Carmans River. I last canoed the Carmans in the early nineties and thought it would be a great place to take kids.  The Carmans is one of four Long Island rivers and runs from Yaphank to the Great South Bay, about 10 miles.  It offers lovely, easy canoeing and kayaking. I loved it because you can get there by train. We went to see what kind of trip the wildlife refuge and river might make for our kids.

Gary Nickerson
May 2007

This past weekend, Carol, Ted and I took a day trip to kayak the Nissequoque River on Long Island. The Nissequoque is one of four rivers on Long Island, about an hour and 15 minutes drive from Manhattan.  It runs from the Long Island Sound south to Smithtown, where the navigable part of the River ends at two old mill dams.  It is interesting because it travels through three ecosystems, with a tidal marsh in the north and woodlands in the south.