June 15, 2010 Location: Schodack Creek, NY

Since leaving New York City, our last several days... Since leaving New York City, our last several days of travel have taken us to upstate New York on the Hudson River. The scenery along the river is beautiful. However, it is so sad that industrial pollution prohibits eating any of the fish caught on the river. The weather is an awesome change from the record heats back home from what we hear from you. Sorry, folks. We sleep under a lightweight comforter at night, start off with a jacket, and change to shorts in the afternoon. The Tadpole crew loves it!


We have been traveling with two boats taking the same route for now, “ Recovery Room” from Jacksonville, Fl and “ Blue Max IV” from Val d’Or Quebec and we will stay together across the Erie Canal.

We celebrated Richard’s “?” birthday eating both lunch and dinner out while at the Kingston NY City Marina and touring the town by foot, uphill and down. He thanks you for all his good wishes and says that this is the absolutely best birthday ever!!! We’re also spending some evenings with our traveling partners playing cards, and visiting while sipping wine or coffee. Once, for a special treat, I made flan for the gang. I think it was a hit as It was gone in a minute.

Our trip today will take us about 26 nautical miles (a short travel day – yeah!) to Watertown, NY, where we will catch up on our laundry and do some grocery shopping and , of course, sightseeing, the ”funnest” of all. We can and may stay for up to 48 hrs at their free dock. From there, we will begin our trip west on the Eric Canal.

..attached is a photo of our anchorage in Schodack Creek....





I failed to mention in my previous post that we did not get to visit with our nephews, Mike and Don, when we passed through the New York/New Jersey area as they are in Italy and won’t be back until the end of June. We had hoped it would all work out – next time.