Adventures (and Misadventures) of Elliott and Mary

Issue 14 -Up to New York and then to Lake Ontario

May-June, 2005
We enjoyed DC and the short time in the Chesapeake (again). Then we headed up toward New York.

The New Jersey coast had been worrying us (at least me) because we go off-shore there for a ways. We had great weather and did fine, till we got around Sandy Hook and into Raitan Bay where we 'rested' and waited for a few days. We were about 4 days early getting into NY. Ask me about it sometime.

I'll try to catch you up here but just a few words and shots for now.

We came into New York Harbor on Memorial Day morning. This is a shot from up the Hudson a little on our way to 79th street and our marina.

(Did I tell you Mary and I sang the Verdi 'Requiem'  with a 250 voice choir in Carniage Hall?).

We then traveled up the Hudson River to Albany where Mary got off and flew to Austin. A week later Ted Brown and Helen's grandson Turner helped me move up to Waterford where the Erie Canal starts. I stayed at the Waterford Visitor Center (a quite wonderful place for boaters at the start of the locks leading up the canal) for a few days till Mary got back and our friend Chris came to visit again.

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We spent a delightful week motoring west on the Erie Canal till we cut north on the Oswego River to the shores of Lake Ontario.

We will head out across to Canada in a couple of days for the Trent-Severn Waterway - but that will be another tale.
 
 
 

Till Later!!
 
 

The Captain and Mary

July 4, 2005
 
 
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