My mom and dad sent me some emails from their journey along the Hudson last week. They were on a senior's tour.

[mom to FatDog email:]
We cruised down the Hudson then circled the Statue of Liberty while our PA system played Kate Smith singing God Bless America. This was a group of people who remembered WWII so it was an emotional moment.
love, Mom



[mom to FatDog email:]
The wheel house on the boat was lowered so that we could clear this bridge.



[mom to me:]
The first Erie Canal was built for canoe travel.
We were given permission to do a bow landing because we had perfect weather conditions and therefore we were able to view what is in the next picture.



We are entering one of the 25 or more locks that we went through. Our boat was built for the Erie Canal with one foot clearance on each side and about a 2 inch clearance going under some of the bridges. In this picture we are still climbing - later we will drop down into the Hudson River. love, Mom






the boat was designed to boat in the Erie and only had 1' of clearance on each side:

Cool pics. Looks like she had a fun trip. I'd love to be able to boat around the Statue of Liberty some day. The trip through the locks looks like it would be very interesting....maybe some day I'll be able to do all of that.

Thanks for sharing the pics.

1" of clearance??? That's a little to close for me!

FatDog, Thank your mom for me. The pics were great. Loved the Statue of Liberty.

Semper Fi 75

Nice shots.

Seeing that bow boarding plank is a first for me.

Great post FatDog
Thanks for the commentary & pics

For some reason, tonight was the first time I was able to see pics ?
Did you re-link them?