Luckily and amazingly, last week's severe heat wave actually extended
right through the weekend (too often they seem to run their course
during the week while I'm at work!), and Saturday was a blazing sunny
scorcher. I had suggested to my wife earlier this summer that at some
point during the season we could take the waverunner out together and
go check out the "NYC Waterfalls," an "art installation" of four man-
made metallic waterfalls that have been installed in the East River
and New York Harbor; she could take her digital waterproof camera (as
always!) and get some nice touristy shots from on the water. So
anyway this last Saturday turned out to be a perfect day for it.
Now, the waterfall themselves are perhaps a little silly, or at best,
not particularly earth-shattering really once you see them, but then
as an excuse to be out on the water cooling off for a traditional
"around-Manhattan" pwc ride on a gorgeous hot summer day and letting
the better half enjoy taking her pictures....they served that purpose
just fine!

Anyway here are her pictures from Saturday accompanied by her usual
light-hearted self-deprecating narrative, if anyone's curious. We
left from Garvies Pt. in Hempstead Harbor, took the East River down to
the waterfall displays, then around the southern tip of NYC, around
the Statue of Liberty for more pics and a break inside Liberty State
Park, then back along the Hudson, overshooting the Spuyten Divil by a
few miles to enjoy the scenery on the Palisades side (one of my
favorite riding grounds) and back on the Harlem River. The plan was
to stop at a nice waterfriend restaurant in Manhasset Bay for dinner
and then head back to the ramp under the most intense part of the
sunset for more pretty sky pics, but by the time I got back that far,
I figured that it would take to long to dock and dine and we would
find ourselves still out after dark (illegal and dangerous). Still
got some early-sunset pictures and had to settle for sushi on land for
dinner.

Anyway....I think anyone can view the photo album without being a
member of the Kodak site, or if you do have to join it's free, and
they don't
generate any spam or anything:

http://www.kodakgallery.com/ShareLan...caleid=en_U S

richforman