Day 355 – Kingston, NY to Albany Yacht Club, Albany, NY - June 25, 2012

After a few days off from traveling we headed north again today.  We have had a bit of unsettled weather over the past few days with some pretty impressive thunderstorms.  More are predicted today, but they are suppose to be widely scattered – we hope they are scattered somewhere besides where we are travelling.  The first part of the day was good and it looked like the clouds were breaking up.  But it didn’t take long and a couple of storm cells moved in around us.  We traveled in the rain for about an hour and saw some lightning in some of the cells.  Fortunately the lightning didn’t get too close – the worst cells passed by us, one to the north and one to the south.

We are staying at the Albany Yacht Club tonight and we will head to Waterford tomorrow.  The dock at Waterford looks right at the first lock on the Erie Canal.  It is exciting to think that we will begin our journey on the Erie Canal so soon.

            Miles: 47.5      Bridges: 5        Locks: 0

the Catskill Mountains hiding in the clouds

Saugerties Lighthouse

there is a swimming event going on for the next few days where swimmers
swim downriver from one bridge on the Hudson River to the next - today's
swim was over 15 miles long

the mountains weren't easy to see through the clouds, but what we could
see was certainly beautiful

Hudson-Athens Lighthouse