Nyack

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October 22 Today we endured rain and cold and clammy weather. It makes a good reason to head south. Still, for a few breif hours it we had nice weather, and the colors down here look much better than upstate.

We’re spending the night on a mooring courtesy of the Nyack Boat Club. We stopped at their dock and I went to the clubhouse to ask permission. I met the commodores of the club sitting in front of big picture windows looking out on the river and the club member’s boats. They said it felt too cold for them to go sailing. They were very gracious. I love their clubhouse. The main room could host a wedding reception for 1000 people.

This afternoon a sparrow decided it was too far to fly across the river so he stopped on the boat. He walked up and down the deck, perched on the rail, and perched on the Monitor. After a while he was rested and flew away.

There is a very strange structure north of Poughkeepsie. It looks like a temple with a gold room and a vaguely phallic shape. I wonder if it could be the home of Reverend Sun Yung Moon.

Pete Lemme told me that Poughkeepsie spent a lot of money on their waterfront to make it boater friendly. However, we couldn’t find anyplace there to land a boat. I think the waterfront money went to park greenery for the land-based citizens.

Our mooring lies only a few hundred meters north of the Tappan Zee bridge. The lights of the bridge look very pretty.