Home, Mumford Cove, Groton, CT

Welcome back party at the SeaHorse!

The End of this journey--we'll see if more is to come.

As you can see, New England is cold and rainy!

Ed doing a fine job of getting Shore Thing into her slip.

Shore Thing approaching her birth in Mumford Cove

We finally left Niantic River in the rain and were heading for home.

Anchorage Niantic River

Well it took almost 24 hours for them to repair the bridge!

We were prolonging our trip and stopped in Niantic for an overnight--it was more than we bargained for. The railroad bridge that has to be lifted to get into the river is stuck in the down position. They cannot tell us when they can lift the bridge. So far we have been waiting six hours!

Anchorage

Anchorage in Niantic River

View of nuclear power plant in Niantic Bay
41 20.644N

72 10.745W

Anchorage Duck Island Roads, Clinton, CT

More of the anchorage

View from anchorage at Duck Island Roads

More of the Thimbles

We thought we would anchor in the Thimble Islands. Unfortunately, it was a weekend and very busy--no room at the inn.

Stamford, CT from the shore

View of Shore in lower CT
41 15.563N

72 28.792W

Anchorage Calf Islands, Greenwich, CT

We were expecting a thunderstorm so when we saw a bright light we were surprised to see a nearby fireworks display. An unexpected treat. Awhile later the thunderstorm arrived.

View from our anchorage--Greenwich, CT

Throgs Neck Bridge

Plane landing at LaGuardia Airport

Just one of the scenes on the East River

United Nations

Seaplane taking off in the East River

Williamsburgh Bridge

Brooklyn Bridge, Manhattan Bridge

South Street Seaport on the East River

NYC skyline from the Battery
This is where we crossed our wake--we have completed the LOOP! Over 7000 miles, two foreign countries and we are still talking!!!

Buttermilk Channel with Governor's Island and Manhattan in the background

Lady Liberty--a great sight

Since we were going up the East River we decided to go the eastern route of the harbor, Brooklyn is in the background

Verazanno Narrows Bridge. The day was not the best--a lot of smog so that you cannot see NYC

Lighthouse at the end of Chapel Hill Channel

These were just a few of the fishing boats in Raritan Bay--can there be any fish left?


A crane barge!

Fort Hancock, Sandy Hook. Atlantic Highlands High School has a field hocky field to the right of the houses. It is a beautiful setting with the ocean on one side and Raritan Bay on the other. I enjoyed the view a few times when our daughter, Laura, played for Holmdel against Atlantic Highlands

40 59.583N
73 38.689W

Anchorage Atlantic Highlands, NJ

We were watching a beautiful sunset from the boat.

Our friend, Ismail spent the evening with us after dropping off is wife, Fifi, at JFK airport. We missed FeFe by a day.

Integrity is the name of Walter Cronkite's boat.

This is newscaster Walter Cronkite's boat.

We were still in Atlantic Highlands waiting out bad weather that never happened.

Anchorage Atlantic Highlands, NJ

Trio of owners of Grand Cru, a Pearson 26, Richie, Jim and Walter, Richie's Dad.

Ed's old friend--they started work together at DuPont 42 years ago. Walter was one of Ed's apartment mates before we got married.

The crew of Grand Cru, Mike, Jim, Richie and Walter

We were at anchor at the town marina in Atlantic Highlands--Grand Cru was coming in from Wed. night races.

This is a unique picture with Coney Island in the foreground and Manhattan in the background

Twin Lights in the hills near Sandy Hook

Asbury Park Convention Center--brought back memories of camping and boating shows when we lived in central New Jersey. Still not many people on the beach. Bruce Springsteen has tried to help revitalize this town but it doesn't look like it is working.

It was such a beautiful day on the ocean we decided to take the outside passage. This is Point Pleasant Beach where most shore people have visited.

40 24.977N
74 01.356W

Anchorage Barnegate Inlet by CG Station

Last ferry of the evening

Lighthouse no long functioning at Barnegate

Anchorage at Barnegate Inlet

This was a surprise addition to Atlantic City

Atlantic City has a couple new casinos

From the ocean side

Our original destination was Atlantic City anchorage but we made such good time we continued on inside on the ICW

Seaside Park, NJ from the Atlantic Ocean

39 45.682N

74 07.014W