Well NOAH (further to be known as Ma & Pa Weather due to their computer male and female forecasters) has come through this time. Tonight it was rain, thunder, lightening, hail, wind, we've had it all and so far come through it fine if I might say.
So, I figured it would be a good time to keep this blog thing rolling along. We travelled 10 hours on Saturday from Croton-On-Hudson and anchored just south of Catskill Creek where we planned to meet Elaine and Lawrence from Elle &I.
The next morning we got a slip at Catskill Marina where we met up with our great chauffeur (thanks, Lawrence) who took us to Wal Mart, where he waited probably 40 minutes with his 15 items for us to find and check out our 73 items, dropped me at the laundromat (the one at the marina was in-op of course) and came and picked me up 2 hours later!
The bright side of doing the laundry was Gary had to put away all of the purchases from Wally World, some things just work out.
Later we were invited to dinner on Elle & I and it was fabulous. Elaine is the Iron Chef of the Magma Grill. She whipped up a sauteed chicken dish and grilled lettuce with balsamic/maple glaze that was to die for. It pays to have friends who can cook!!!! Thanks again, Elaine.
This morning we filled up with water, took showers, washed down the decks, and tossed the lines at 11:30. Then we traveled a whole 2 hours to our next anchorage, whew, what a day!!
The sky is now brightening and hopefully this is it for today. Well, I took a break for dinner and that wasn't it for the day! Things are heating up again. Is this global warming??? We have thunder, lightening, cars, and trains....quite the cacophony of noise. I'll have to break out the new earplugs tonight.
Here are some more photos....I'm beginning to feel like a travel log of photo ops....but it's just beautiful up here...
Bear Mountain Bridge..north of Peekskill
The Hudson has railways on each side...the west side has freight trains and the east side is the Amtrak route..
Idyllic setting......
Another Vintage Beauty nestled in its aerie on the hill
West Point....
Ok, my first thought was "If the way you entered West Point was by the water, I'd say, " Umm, I don't think so,sorry, changed my mind" ....Does this not look like a maximum security prison?......
Gary said that's probably exactly what the cadets feel like.....we were very underwhelmed with West Point. Go NAVY!!
But they do have a sense of humor.... notice the roof..."Beat Air Force"
Bannerman Castle on Pollepel Island.. http://www.bannermancastle.org/island-history.html If you're interested in it's history click the link. It is short but informative.
Just upriver from Pollepel was the City of Newburgh where the topography flattened out
Then in another hour or so (which means about 10 miles :-) in Tie A Knot talk) the hills started again.
Esopus Light
He flew right over us turned, landed and pulled up to a house on the hill.
Another Great Lighthouse
THIS IS FOR YOU WAYNE....Yummmmm
We were north near Stuyvesent when we saw this old brick building nestled in the woods. Have no idea what it was but it has vegetation growing out of the stack..I looked but couldn't find any info on the net.
The largest debris we've seen yet...an entire tree trunk. Lots of debris in this river. But at least it is usually spread out enough that playing 'dodgem' isn't too taxing on the pilot.
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Anchorage view to the West
We are very close to the Amtrak track to the East and the road beyond it.
Luckily traffic on either this far north is not heavy.
The BUG of the week....the Cicada. At Catskill Marina they told us they only come
once every 17 years. We heard them before we saw them. I kept saying "what is that noise", when Gary finally heard it he thought a bearing was going and ran down into the engine room. It was kind of like the palmetto bugs or crickets in the trees but louder. Then they started to land on the boat.
Lucky us! They were about 1 3/4 inches long and were very attracted to our
white boat. If we picked them up (yeah, I'm not scared) and threw them over board they would just fly around and landed back on the boat. Kept me busy. They're like the Florida 'Palmetto Bug' in that if they land on their backs they can't right themselves.
Later.....
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