Rained hard all day on the 9th so we stayed put in our little creek.
On the trail at 7 this morning in order to get the most of the falling tide, always difficult going downriver.
Past some scars from quarrying operations, interesting contrast in colours.
Then past what seems to be an abandoned ironworks, almost merging with the scenery and slowly being absorbed by it.
Small towns half hidden in off-channel inlets (is that a tug on display?)
This could be Merthyr Tydfil (but it isn’t)
Lots of lighthouses, I like them all, something reassuring about their endurance.
This, I am reliably informed is either:
The culinary Institute of America (the other CIA)
or
The Hudson State Hospital (the kind of place Hannibal Lector might end up in)
Pretty forbidding whatever it is.
This is Newburg we were going to stop here but we were doing so well we didn’t.
I’m not sure about this, a folly, built as a hotel and never used now fallen to ruin, it is close to Bear Mountain Gap (where the Hudson pierces the Adirondack Mountains)
Bordered on one side by this rocky promontory “Storm King” – love the name.
Around the next bend West Point (again) still impressive.
Finally into Haverstraw Marina, 58 miles and 9 hours later.
Through New York City and out to Sandy Hook tomorrow, weather permitting.
Boadicea's Chariot 
Thoroughly enjoying your trip with you, LW. Good to see fava beans on the menu, washed down with the obligatory chianti, I hope. (slurp, slurp)
Been a busy weekend up that way, what with our epic trip through the NY waterways, the golf at Rochester and NASCAR at Watkins Glen!
Some brilliant buildings there.
The Yanks are even worse at getting rid of derelict industry than we are back home. See Detroit.
On my daily “earth” run along your route, the folly in ‘photo 9 is actually Bannermans Island Arsenal. It was built by a scottish arms dealer Francis Bannerman who died in 1914. Large portions of it were fairly swiftly removed when 200 tons of shells and ammunition exploded in 1929. There you go, if it hadn’t been for your trip I’d never have known anything about it or him and his family.
Janus: Land is cheap here, even a couple hundred acres of Hudson Valley waterfront is not worth the purchase risk if it was used by heavy industry so it is just abandoned. Over the years it will slip back into the landscape, a hundred years from now it will be a tourist attraction. Complete with the obligatory “Interpretive Center”.
Schoolkids of the future will hear “Iron was made here from locally mined ore, an industry that has vanished from the continent”
JHL: The local guide I picked up had nothing about the munitions, just the hotel bit, and the name Bannermans Island, the rest was all news to me.