jonny491

nice

I love leaving in the dark and watching the sun come up during a journey, great shot

The Little Red Lighthouse isn't near as cute as this one : )

I've been up there a few times. I used to live in Fort Lee, NJ and getting around there for a hike was only a half hour drive. Hawk watchers like that spot in the fall.

Now there's some interesting ancestry!

Hudson River had a lot of Dutch sailors, and pirates - imagine a few Dutch pirates too.

Nice thing about yer modern-day Belgian pirate captains is that really all they want is a good sail and a cold Corona at the end of the day...

NICE!!!

Lovely night shot. I love those early mornings on the water.

Great shot!

It's tough at the top:)

There was a time:) My ancesters were Dutch privateers in the 1600-1700's.

Absolutely, great colour!

Excellent!

wonderful shot with the sun behind the steel - very beautiful!

Beautiful - gorgeous reflected colours in the water.

Absolutely beautiful shot!

There's this little event every year called the Great Hudson River Paddle...Troy to NYC in I think it's 7 days. I'm just sayin'.

Can be checked out at www.hrwa.org - I know they've set the dates for '06.

I've never done it personally (only so much vacation time & so far there's always been something else that made it not work) but I have friends who've done it every year from the start & it sounds like a blast - at least if you don't think that having a van haul your stuff and people in the little towns along the way throw barbecues for you is sissy camping. Personally I love paddling, like I think it was Pink Kayak that said on a comment "All days on the water are good", but logistics sometimes bore me (maybe it's just that for the 3 years I was guiding in NYC I got more than my share of working out that end for others - although day trips never are quite as logistically complicated so I can't totally blame that), something to be said for letting somebody else take care of that!

Another nice one... I guess I gotta paddle on the Hudson...

Well, er, fact was there wasn't really enough breeze to make it worth raising. We will raise sails on a sail with paying passengers even if there's no wind - we have to at least make the effort, and if there's so much as a breath when we get down to the harbor we'll always at least try to see what we can do with it, 'cause we do really like the passengers to get at least a taste of what she's like under sail - but not when it's just us. And in fact we did pass a couple of other sailboats who'd made the same decision.

But it was one heckuva nice motor!

I can hear the skirling of the pipes Lass