Memorial Day, 2012

This is this morning's sunrise.

The day started out with a gorgeous sunrise.  "Red sky at night, sailors' delight. Red sky at morn, sailors be warned.  What happens if the sky is red at night and in the morning?  Well, it was a beautiful day today.  It got a lot warmer today than it had so far. It was in the upper 80s.  What an exciting day!  When we were passing the Statue of Liberty, I was taking pictures and singing the Star Spangled Banner and America the Beautiful.  Then I said a prayer for all of the veterans and our nephew Andy who is in the Navy and deployed at this time.  It all gave me goose bumps.  Then we passed Ellis Island. 

We were going against the current on the Hudson River and only doing 5.5 mph and at a higher rpm than we normally travel.  John turned around and we were going 13.6 mph with the current.  Unfortunately, we wanted to go north against the current.  Instead of arriving here at Westerly Marina at 11:00, we didn't get here until 1:15 and the Marina was closing today at 2:00.  Whew!  Marinas in this area are a lot more expensive than we are used to paying.  This one is less than most at $2.00 a foot plus $5 extra for one 30 amp cord.  We spent the rest of the afternoon trying to clean the boat, but there is no water on this dock.  Apparently, they are refurbishing the docks and they haven't gotten around to putting the water back on the dock we were assigned.  It's hard to wash your boat without water, but we did the best we could with Fantastic.  We thought we would walk to a restaurant next door to the marina for dinner, but we were too pooped and just ate on the boat instead. 

 Statue of Liberty.

 Ellis Island.

 New York Skyline.

How did this happen?

  Bad docking job or building collapse?

George Washington Bridge.