Forgot to start Nebo this morning, so no route to post.
There were a lot more eagles again today. We also witnessed two surprising sights, an eagle in the water and squirrel swimming. We were confused about the eagle at first. We couldn’t tell what kind of bird it was right away, and then it looked like it was harmed somehow by the way it was moving its wings. But when the boat got closer, it flew away quickly into a nearby tree. We decided it must have been struggling with a fish.
I had no idea that squirrels swim, so when I first saw it from a distance, I thought it was a turtle, then a beaver, before we finally realized it was a squirrel. Apparently, they swim to find new foraging areas, escape danger, or migrate to a new area. We didn’t get a chance to ask this one what their reason was.
We took our radar mast and radio antenna down so the boat would fit under several railroad bridges. This pesky interstate commerce is really getting in the way of our pleasure boating. Thankfully, we didn’t have to take the Bimini down, that’s the only one that’s tricky. Actually, it’s not tricky to take down, just to put back up. And time-consuming.
Sadly, the mountains are mostly out of view now, but we still enjoyed a scenic and calm cruise.
Even though we had six more locks to finish on what is considered the Champlain Canal, the man made portion was behind us and the rest of the way was on the natural Hudson River.
After docking on a very high city dock wall that where needed a ladder to get on and off the boat, we walked into the town of Fort Edward.
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