Reunion Voyage: New York City to Croton on Hudson

Inspiring!

We woke up this morning in Liberty Landing State Park, with Lady Liberty just off our bow – what an inspiring sight. The park no longer has a dock for taking a dinghy ashore, so we took a lot of photos from the boat. The water was tumultuous as we entered the Hudson River even though there was not a lot of traffic. The Staten Island ferries are huge, and smaller water taxis were buzzing back and forth. We only saw a couple of marina areas all the way along.

Ellis Island, Architecture from a different era

Despite the morning haze in the air we enjoyed the city views; Ellis Island, lower Manhattan and the newly completed Freedom Tower that stands where the Twin Towers used to be. We could pick out the Empire State Building, Chrysler Building, Chelsea Pier and we saw the maritime museum where the warship Intrepid is docked with the Shuttle Challenger onboard (under a cover) and a British Concorde airplane.

Sea, Air and Space Museum

There are parkways and green space along the river as you head north and go under the George Washington and Tappan Zee bridges. On shore we could see large groups of children in their summer camp T-shirts having a great time. Further up river we picked out the Bronx, Yonkers, Palisades, Newburgh and Nyack and Dennis identified Sing Sing Prison. I don’t know how he knows some of these things – probably the ever-present Google instant gratification machine.

We are docked at Half Moon Bay Yacht Club at Croton on Hudson. Nice place, only 5 hours up from Liberty Landing – that’s 38 miles – life at 7 knots.