WE FINALLY LEFT

At 7 AM this morning I left my comfortable, but shallow, slip at Canyon Club Marina in Cape May, NJ.  Rich and Carol's human friends were there to take pictures and help me get away.  I said good bye to Dealer Breaker, Yankee Girl and Bacchus, who share the dock with me.  We had an interesting ride up the Jersey Coast.  It was a lot like San Fransisco---if you don't like the waves wait 15 minutes and the wind and waves would change.

Carol wanted to take a picture of Lucy the Elephant, good thing that Rich's sister sent us the picture below because the fog was so bad Rich decided not to go in toward shore.  Lucy is a building in the shape of an elephant, built in 1881 that stands about 6 stories high and was originally used as a real estate office. It has also served as a summer home, a tavern, and now a tourist attraction in Margate NJ (just south of Atlantic City).


When we got to New York Rich took a picture of Lower Manhattan at about the same spot he took one in 2001. Below are both pictures, can you figure out which is which ?

 The dark building in the left center of the above picture is the new World Trade Center being built.  There are two cranes on top of it.  Today was a gray day so today's picture is not so good.

The New Jersey Palisades are an awesome sight.  Rich told me that the top of them is covered with condos and apartments, but you can't see them from the water so the lava flows look pristine

We ended the day at 4:30 PM when we pulled into Half Moon Bay Marina at Croton on the Hudson. The day was long but we managed to cover 154 miles.

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