Partridge Harbor is a tight little hurricane hole of a size a little hard to judge but probably about one hundred and fifty feet across, almost circular with a fifty foot wide entrance, like a little meteor crater carved out of a cliff.
Google Earth might show it (it’s right about N 44.12.10 W 73.23.45 by my GPS, just to the NE of Hunter Bay.
Great little spot for one boat and one partridge brave enough to surf in with a following wind, I did beat the usual afternoon thunderstorm to anchor by about ten minutes. Settled down nicely now and the wind is forecast to drop overnight.
Made about fifty miles today, cleared lock 12 at 8:30 and with the following wind made good time up into Lake Champlain proper.
The approach to the lake is more and more like the lower Wye valley, cliffs and trees with a railroad running along the bank
The other bank that is.
Then just before the lake opens up, the defensive works are seen.
Another place from the history books, Fort Ticonderoga, built by the French (has that look somehow) in 1758 and taken by the British in 1759. The Brits seemed to favour this strategy, let someone else do the heavy lifting and then swoop in and acquire a brand new building. They did not have it long, it was thinly garrisoned and one of the first successes of the Revolutionary War was the capture of the fort by our old friend Benedict Arnold early in the morning of May 10, 1775 (like I said before, he was a good soldier before he turned agin’ us).
Around the next bend more defensive works, Fort St. Fredericks, again French built (1759) and again captured by the British in the same year and renamed Fort Crown Point. Now mostly ruined.
On up into the lake proper, with the usual lake inhabitants.
Ospreys nesting on a channel marker.
Finally after fifty odd miles, we are tucked into our little cove for the night.
Not much room to port,
or to starboard,
or out ahead come to that.
Thinking about Plattsburg tomorrow, the wind is down but the forecast ain’t so good, rain and fog, will decide in the am.
G ‘night all.
Boadicea's Chariot 
Another great post with super photographs, LW.
As the least travelled member of the ship I’m enjoying your journey, LW, and I don’t have to worry about the bad weather. Thanks for the history lesson about the various Forts.
G’night Sinbad.
Unfortunately read about your friend Bill first. So sad that your trip has been beset by quite so many impediments and upsets.
Fascinating photos. You are quite right, it does have the cast of the Wye valley about it.