Day 36- Liberty Landing Marina, Jersey City, NJ to Croton-On-Hudson, NY
A quick look back as we leave Liberty Landing Marina , Lady Liberty, Ellis Island
and the terminal building.
The view straight ahead as we left the marina.
As we turned to head north this was the view of Jersey City to the left.
is a sculpture along the Hudson River Waterfront Walkway in the Newport section of Jersey City. It depicts a woman with closed eyes holding a finger to her lips in a state of silent contemplation and self-reflection.
If you need any Wannas, look elsewhere, they're having a Wanna shortage over here,
Hoboken Terminal is a commuter-oriented intermodal passenger station in Hoboken, New Jersey. One of the New York metropolitan area's major transportation hubs.
The skyline view just doesn't seem to get old, as you can see.
Check out the trees in the foreground.
They have to plant them wherever they can.
More of the skyline with One World Trade Center being the tallest.
The One Highline Residences are luxury apartment buildings designed in what is referred to as the drunken architecture style.
The golfers get to practice at this driving range. We weren't sure if there is a floating platform or if the balls go into a net in the water?!
I marveled at the location of the trees.
We start to see the beginning of the rock structure of the Palisades on the New Jersey side.
More stainless steel buildings of NYC.
Interesting article about them by clicking here.
Above the retired Concorde and under the steel buildings is the USS Intrepid aircraft carrier. Its a great floating museum.
In the water to the left of the frame is the USS Growler, an old Regulus missile carrying diesel boat. Her sistership, the Greyback, had another life carrying divers engaged in "interesting work."
The Intrepid is docked at Pier 86. Two docks up, at Pier 88, the liner SS Normandie caught fire and capsized while being converted to a troop ship in 1942
This is another futuristic apartment building.
It was rush hour. The cars were bumper to bumper.
At least they had pretty trees next to the road.
General Grants National Memorial is the round building on the left.
Riverside Church is the one with all the spires.
Who is buried in Grant's tomb, anyway?
This is the George Washington Bridge. It's actually I-95. If you look closely at the next shot, we did not use some special stop action camera setting. The traffic was basically creeping on both levels.
Some nuns have an impressive piece of real estate.
Ah, yes. The Harlem River. It's what make Manhattan an island. The other end is at the Hell Gate on the East River. They say you can go this way, but I've heard stories about refrigerators being tossed off the bridge onto the tour boats.
See below. This is the name of this iconic opening of the Harlem River. In order to not sound like a tourist, I will help you along.
"Spoitn Doivl"
I turned and looked back and was in awe.
I had to take this last picture of NYC and the George Washington Bridge.
More of the Palisades walls with a marina at the bottom.
This the town of Yonkers, NY. Ok, the city of Yonkers, population 200,000+.
I thought Yonkers was just a department store, silly me.
The light color amongst the green trees are lilac trees in full bloom!
Japanese tree lilacs (Syringa reticulata) can reach 25 to 30 feet tall.
This is the boat Nauti-dog. They are the folks that took the picture of us at the Statue of Liberty. New Jersey houses in the background.
The Tappan Zee bridge. Sorry, its now the Mario Cuomo Bridge, Either way, its your ticket to get from the Garden State Parkway in New Joisey and connect with I-95 in White Plains. You can stay on the GW bridge and I-95 if you just can't live without the traffic and the perils of the Cross-Bronx Expressway.
Replacing the accumulator tank in the fresh water system.
Amazon next-day delivery to the marina.
For those of you who didn't know, the real definition of boating is "fixing your boat in exotic places without the right parts".
It was finally warm, sunny and we had time to get my Oru Kayak out and put it together. Next step will be to get it into the water. This kayak is 9'8" long and folds into a small, 20 pound suitcase sized package. I'm looking forward to exploring with it.
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Paul comments in this font
Looks adventurous. Have fun.
ReplyDeleteGreat portfolio of pics and explanations. Bob the Ducks wants to know the originator of the Lack of Wanna’s comment? It has a certain Paul pun quality not saying Cheryl could have been the punster in question. Regardless Bob wanna’s say it’s borderline genius. Bob the Duck
ReplyDeleteBe careful. Don't feed that ego of Paul's too much. Yes, it was his comment about Lack of Wanna. Good one, huh?
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