Southern Migration Mode

At Sea
40 30.65 N 074 00.27 W

This morning at 0630, it went outside. It was very cold. I looked up and saw my first flock of migratory geese flying low over us. That's my signal. Time for Tarwathie to migrate southward.

We're very glad we stayed in the Liberty anchorage rather than 79th street. It was quiet, restful, and still. Up on 79th street it would have been none of those things.

The logistics worked out too. This morning, Roger left us. He walked to the nearest water taxi terminal, caught a boat to Manhattan, a subway to Penn Station and a train to Rhinecliff where he left his car. Our new crew person, Miles, did almost the reverse. He took a subway to the World Trade Center, a water taxi to Liberty Park and then walked to where Tarwathie was anchored.

The previous time in that anchorage, in 2005, we sat out Hurricane Wilma at that spot behind the Statue of Liberty. The adjacent land seemed to be one of those industrial dump sites endemic to New Jersey. Since then they built a huge new building of beautiful steel and glass. I learned this morning that it is the clubhouse for the brand new Liberty National Golf Course. The clubhouse even has an elevated ramp about 1/2 mile long that connects its parking garage to a new special exit on the NJ Turnpike. Boy, there must be very deep pockets behind that project.

So now we're under way. It is a beautiful sunny warm afternoon. The city scenery was great, I should have excellent pictures to post. The only disappointment is that the promised wind is missing. It is almost calm right now and we have to motor rather than sail. I hope that changes soon. However, we're not changing our plans now. If we have to motor all the way to Norfolk, then so be it.