This wasn’t where we had planned to stop, but it is a beautiful place.We are definitely getting closer to home, Canada geese and mosquitoesThe water was literally like glass todaySnag boat picking up debris in the water, glad they picked up this stuff….
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Little Falls Town Dock, Little Falls, New York
The canal has a series of “guard gates”, huge steel gates hung from steel towers resting on heavy concrete foundations, used to close certain portions of the canal for repair work or to prevent damage in case of a break in the canal embankment.Th…
Riverlink Park Public Dock, Amsterdam, New York
The downtown area seems to be framed by huge banks.The design on this fence is based on one used by the Iroquois to represent people and nations linked as equals in collaborative partnerships for mutual benefit.Amsterdam has been a thriving industrial …
Waterford Town Docks, Waterford, New York
The sluiceway for the lock actually runs down through an original lock before the Erie Canal was rebuiltThis barge pushed by a tow came by today headed for the lock; we wondered if it would fit, it did, but just barelyThey have memorials to those who l…
Waterford Town Dock, Waterford, New York
The town docks from aross the canal; the visitor’s centre is even flying a Canadian flag, good way to make us feel welcome.Sunny with a few clouds this morning, nice travel day. Left Catskill this morning, exited Catskill Creek and went under Rip Van W…
Catskill Marina, Catskill, New York
Uncle Sam bridge over Catskill Creek; Samuel Wilson of Catskill became the personification of the US government in 1917 on posters recruiting young men for the military.The water is very still this eveningEntering Catskill Creek behind GypseaThis …
Kingston Municipal Docks, Kingston, New York
Lighthouse at entrance to Rondout CreekThe lighthouse at the Esopsus shoalsMouth of a railway tunnel along the water; at one point we could see what looked like lights on the water, turned out to be a train coming out of a tunnel around the mountain. (…
Half Moon Bay Marina, Croton on Hudson, New York
Empire State Building towers above everything else Rock palisades north of George Washington bridgeLeft Liberty Landing this morning, unfortunately against the current and tide, so a slow trip up the river. From our marina up to the George Washington B…
Liberty Landing Marina, Jersey City, New Jersey
Looking across at Ground Zerothe main office for the marina is in a decomissioned light shipEllis IslandThe statue of liberty through the hazeCrawdad as she pulled away from the dock this morning.We are sitting at a beautiful marina along the Hudson Ri…
Great Kills Yacht Club, Staten Island, New York
Crookes Point, as you enter Great Kills Harbor on Staten IslandGreat Kills Yacht Club (Kills in Dutch means river)Left Brielle at about 9 this morning, just as the strong tide was turning (slack tide) so easier to get out of our slip and underw…
