PADDLING POND AND BAY Long Island's ponds, marshes and bays are a mecca for kayakers.
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But whereas Pincay and The Shoe plied their trade in the grand arenas, Baze has been the big fish in the Californian ponds of Bay Meadows and Golden Gate Fields.
Imagine how many pools, ponds, lakes, bays, streams, stretches of swimmable shore there are in the world right now, probably half of them empty of swimmers, by reason of night or negligence.
His journey takes him to icy riverine pools in Devon and Wales, to village lidos and the lodes of Norfolk, via London's Hampstead ponds and the bays of the Isles of Scilly.
One quandary is presented by the two former freshwater ponds at the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in Queens, where the storm surge carved a new inlet from the bay to one pond and breached the other in three places, inundating both with salt water.
The kitchen has French doors that open onto a stone terrace overlooking the pond, and there is a bay window in the formal dining room.
If the ponds were part of the bay, Ms. Sweeney said, a development of the kind proposed could never be approved.
The Rhode Island coast, where forested salt ponds meet the cool blue bay, is bracing and exhilarating in summer, and even more so from the seat of a fast-moving bicycle.
They deny that the ponds are part of the bay and legally protected by the federal Clean Water Act.
But the ponds are defined as distinct from the bay itself in the charter of the Bay Conservation and Development Commission.
