Blogs from Hudson Valley, New York, United States, North America - page 2

Jour 9 Dernière écluse à faire aujourd’hui. Le vent nous pousse et pour faire bien nous sommes 6 bateaux à écluser en même temps. Puis c’est la descente vers Albany. Il semble que nous allions tous à la même place : Hop-o-nose, à Catskill. Nous y retrouvons Zénith, Kai Keiki et Stray Kitty, pour ne nommer que ceux-là. On arrête à la marina Getty, il n’y a plus de place en face. C’est la haute saison du rematage de voilier. Nous en profitons pour faire une tour de vélo, c’est super, pas trop de côte et mon genou le prend bien. Nous allons voir à la marina Riverview pour acheter un réflecteur radar, c’est raté, ils n’en ont pas en stock. Au retour, nous installons le radar et commençons l’éolienne. Nous soupons avec Yvon et Nicole, ... read more

La météo annonce le passage d’un front pluvieux avant celui des restants de Ike dimanche soir. Nous voulions faire du vélo mais le temps est incertain; ce matin, il pleut un peu et il fait très chaud. Alors, nous décidons de nettoyer un peu l’intérieur (aspirateur et lavage des planchers) avant de repartir. Pendant le ménage, le temps s’est dégagé; on décide de partir en vélo, maintenant on sait où trouver la piste du Feeder canal. MAGNIFIQUE… Il n’aurait pas fallu manquer cela. Ça fait du bien de bouger et de se retrouver sur un vélo. Admirez le paysage… pour ça on est capable de faire des photos pas pires…. On rentre après quelques trente kilomètres. La nuit s’annonce venteuse, on vérifie les amarres des quais et on double celles d’Absaroque. ... read more

The City of Hudson is known for it's architecture. Established in the 1820s as the largest inland whaling port in the US by refugees from Nantucket, it began life as a copy of a New England seaport town. Rumor has it that some of the actual houses first erected were shipped in bundles from from the same mills and housewrights who built most of the old Nantucket houses. The remaining early houses certainly wouldn't be stylistically out of place on Nantucket's streets. Through the ups and downs of the nearly two centuries of its existence, the City has become home to a multiplicity of architectural styles, leading it to be dubbed "a museum of American Architectural style." Famed Photographer Lynn Davis did a series of architectural portraits of the buildings along the mile long Warren Street ... read more

Friday night (June 29th), we got to the boat late, after cleaning and packing up the house. Our new home until next May is considerably smaller than our house, so loading the boat was quite a challenge. We planned to take "a couple of hours" Saturday morning to finish stowing stuff away, then leave. Well, we had several friends pay us a visit on Saturday, and we didn't get stuffed stowed, so at about 3:30 we left anyway from Bronte Oakville for Oswego NY where we enter the Erie Canal. The weather didn't co-operate and we ended up spending Canada Day in Coburg, where they had a great Canada Day Celebration. On Monday , we crossed the lake to Oswego, and started the trip down the Erie Canal. The Erie Canal connects Lake Ontario to the ... read more

This part of Kingston used to be an amusment park and ferry landing. The park and the ferries are long gone, but the beach remains. I travel here quite often during lunch in off-season to watch the seagulls. The beach fronts the Hudson River and the gulls fly inland to avoid bad weather. I often meet nice people here, such as Joyce V., a former school teacher who once lived in New York City and now lives in Kingston. She comes to the Beach often to feed the gulls. ... read more