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Article: KAYAKING JAMAICA BAY New York City wildlife refuge.
- Article from:
- New York State Conservationist
- Article date:
- August 1, 1999
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1999 New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Recreation can mean many things in the 26,000 acre Gateway National Recreation Area: beachcombing on Bergen Beach in Brooklyn, orchestra concerts at Staten Island's Miller Field or surf casting at Fort Tilden in Queens.
But where Brooklyn's Flatbush Avenue meets the sea, canoers and kayakers can recapture the rapture of nature. On the salt marshes of Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, bulrushes towering high overhead obscure the distant World Trade Center and surrounding buildings of Brooklyn and Queens.
Deep within this watery web that threads through tall marsh grasses, the cycle of tides cover and then expose vast mud banks. Bird songs and the rustling of ...