To Sandy Hook
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Thu 28 Jul 2011 17:45
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To Sandy Hook, New
Jersey
 Sadly it was time to tear ourselves
away from the 79th Street Boat Basin, with no bow
thruster we left at 9:30 - slack tide
 This time as we went past the over
sized "tennis court" we knew it is actually a golf driving
range
 FDNY three forty
three sitting waiting quietly for action. The Hudson River - at least the
part that runs along the West side of Manhattan - never freezes because, when
necessary, the Coast Guard positions ice cutters upriver to keep the channel
open. This is often a necessity as there is a one in four chance of the city
having a white Christmas.
  Bear really doesn't fancy the job of
window cleaner in NYC, a pimple on the building (left
picture)
 We bid a final
farewell to the Statue of Liberty
 Waved at the half
finished 1 World Trade Centre
   New York City began to
fade behind us
  I had taken us in so it was
right for Bear to bring us out under the Verrazano Narrows
Bridge, all 1,000,000 tons of it. At least today we could see the tops of
the towers, unlike our arrival in thick haze. The first and last of
the 2,027 bridges in new York City.
 No sooner than we had left the
bridge than a little lady came to see us on our
way
 Looking toward Sandy Hook on a bright, clear, calm day
 A quiet twenty two miles, in to the
marina to fuel up and back out past the buoys to
anchor for the night
ALL IN
ALL TIME TO MOVE ON
QUITE NICE TO BE ON OUR
WAY
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