From the historic wreckage on the Rondout Creek to a hot air balloon over Rhinecliff, two eagles necking at the jetty (too far for my camera but I swear they were necking a really long time!), then our beautiful Kingston Beach, “glamping” at the Hutton Brickyards (that is, glamour camping), and historic brickyard structures. All on a short row!

We rowed from the Wurtz Street Bridge to the Rhinecliff Bridge. We stayed west of the navigation channel and got to stop twice on the brick strewn beaches along the way. Well worth the almost 4 hour endeavor (because of breaks and long chats along the way). Great way to spend the very early hours of a day expected to be VERY HOT! Unfortunately I set my eCrumbs software to stop after 3 hours and it only read 8.23 miles. But I calculate that it was approximately 11 plus miles. Quite the journey!

A beautiful sunrise and row to the lighthouse when I notice the big orange “lobster”. Know to the marine community as “Chester” it is used to chomp up the water chestnuts that plague our estuary. Some volunteers where driving it south towards Esopus and I was surprised at how fast it travels! I finally caught up to it, exhausted, and got a nice shot of it rolling along. Then I head back down past the lighthouse on the Creek when I notice a familiar dock meandering with the ebb tide on its way to the Hudson and points south. I wonder how far it would have gotten before the tides would have reversed and sent it north again. Would it have found its way home? I DOUBT IT! Anyway I got a group of rowers to help me climb aboard and tie it to the jetty so that someone could pick it up and take it back home.Like I say, I can’t make this stuff up! Never a dull moment on the Rondout Creek

Oh yeah!  Check out who visited the Rondout Creek today!

Pushing a barge to Feeney’s this morning.  Then I finally took a picture of the curious tree that grows out of a hole in metal wall.