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Post by innit Geezer on Jul 22, 2008 12:40:01 GMT -6
This past Sunday we went with some friends on a cruise down to the Nyacks and back north to Bear Mt. N.Y. I took some pictures to share. Check out how high this mountain is nearly right to the edge of the water. The person standing at the bottom gives some perspective on the total height. There's a bike/walking trail at the base of the river. This is looking east. I'll refrain from ruining the photo with a yellow arrow.  This was our vessel, a small runabout, ok for 4 people but lots of fun.   |
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Post by innit Geezer on Jul 22, 2008 12:52:57 GMT -6
Some homes in Upper Nyack, there are lots of good restaurants and bars in the village. Rosie used to live in this small town too.  |
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Post by innit Geezer on Jul 22, 2008 13:05:31 GMT -6
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Post by innit Geezer on Jul 22, 2008 13:11:23 GMT -6
Sing Sing prison on the Western shore of the river. I took this picture from approximately 1 1/2 miles away. I wanted to get close to shore and have my wife flash but she wouldn't do it.  |
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Post by innit Geezer on Jul 22, 2008 13:19:53 GMT -6
The Tappan Zee Bridge, the commuters nightmare. When this was completed in the 1950's the northern farmland above the city quickly turned into the northern suburbs. There's a quiz on Friday, pay attention.  |
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Post by innit Geezer on Jul 22, 2008 13:34:09 GMT -6
Amtrak runs along the western shore with daily service from the top of the state beginning in Montréal, QC and ending in New Yorks Penn Station.  |
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Post by Irish Stu on Jul 23, 2008 6:02:28 GMT -6
Great pictures Gaz. It always fascinates me when I see parts of your country that as a tourist I'd be unlikely to visit.
Simon
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Post by innit Geezer on Jul 23, 2008 6:15:22 GMT -6
Thanks Si, in the first post the cliff top shows to be about 800 feet above sea level according to Google Earth, I didn't think it was that high. (while the Hudson River is just about at sea level)
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Post by innit Geezer on Jul 23, 2008 17:20:54 GMT -6
Here's a grounded tug that has been sitting for years.   |
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Post by Ardbeg... innit on Jul 24, 2008 5:43:14 GMT -6
Years?? I would have guessed decades.
It looks familiar, was its former owner named Issa?
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Post by innit Geezer on Jul 24, 2008 5:51:10 GMT -6
Now that you mention it, it does have a wooden hull and that would suggest mega time, but I don't recall seeing it when I was a teenager when I had spent time on the river. It also has a mast (I think) but my friend called it a tug. Maybe Tex will have a better idea.
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Post by Tex on Jul 24, 2008 8:16:16 GMT -6
My guess is that it is a motorsailor freighter. These were popular in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and could either sail or steam. You can go up a river by sail alone but you have to drop anchor every time the wind is unfavorable and that could get to be time consuming. I guessed freighter because it looks like what is left of a big crane is on the vessel. This would make sense for a boat stopping at small docks without proper loading equipment.
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Post by innit Geezer on Jul 29, 2008 17:18:21 GMT -6
This is the Bear Mountain Bridge (looking north). I believe it was built during the New Deal era, it connects Upper Westchester County and Lower Orange County. Whichever depth finder we use, it always tells us it's 195 to 200 feet deep under the bridge, that's the deepest water I've seen in the Hudson. Certain areas of the shoreline are very shallow for hundreds of yards out. You have to be careful when coming back to the marina. Next time I'm hopefully going to water ski nakked.  |
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