"My dad jumped in, grabbed an oar, fished the cage from the water, hunched over the soggy hamster and began to administer CPR.
"My dad jumped in, grabbed an oar, fished the cage from the water, hunched over the soggy hamster and began to administer CPR," Alexandra Kerry said of a long-ago family vacation when the family dog knocked the hamster from the dock.
Everywhere, really: the countless swaths of riprap and road-end and aquatic cul-de-sac that have always drawn New Yorkers -- fishing rod, oar, surfboard, book in hand -- have only grown more appealing as the water and coast have been cleaned up.
* A fisherman skirting shore in his high-prowed skiff crossing bamboo oars comes up with a jolt – nets catch not fish but the wizened finger of a submerged branch for below a sunken valley persists – slick bare trunks furred in wafting fronds have water for sky, ghost forest.
Her albums trace the roundup's history to the days of wooden boats powered by oars, when most contestants made their livelihoods fishing, and when powerful tarpon -- a highly prized game fish -- were plentiful in local waters.
Fitzroy (1839) observed off St . Pauls Rocks that "as soon as a fish was caught, a rush of voracious sharks was made at him, notwithstanding blows of oars and boat hooks, the ravenous monsters could not be deterred from seizing and taking away more than half the fish that were hooked".
His body moves in a remarkable way, twitching like a fish at the end of his own line – his crutchwork (he uses his crutch as weapon and oar) is of an Olympic standard.
The fish-like features of Acanthostega include a tail fin supported by long bony rays, to make an oar shape.
