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"Hello to all from Catskill, New York, just one day, approximately 40 miles, south of Albany, and the start of the Erie Canal. Except for a few individual e-mails, and a summary of our stay at the Great Kill Yacht Club on Staton Island, New York, this will be the first update since Chesapeake City, Maryland, on the Chesapeake & Delaware (C&D) Canal. You probably have no problem figuring out that the photographs are of ground zero in New York, The Boardwalk and the amusement park in Atlantic City, and C-Life in front of the Statue of Liberty."

"We left Chesapeake City and observed our first Bald Eagle of this trip sitting on a pole beside the canal. We then boated down the Delaware River/Bay and came by the Salem Nuclear Power Plant. We stayed one night at Cape May, NJ, and then on to Atlantic City. We had a great time, went to the Trump Casino (Kay broke even, but I lost about $25, all on the quarter slot machines), the City Aquarium, and biked on the boardwalk. From Atlantic City, on to New York and the Great Kill Yacht Club (described on the previous e-mail) for three days. We left Staton Island, NY, and up the Hudson River. WOW, all the shipping traffic, and off in the distance was the Statue of Liberty, the City skyline, right by Ellis Island, and on up the Hudson. I saw what my Daddy saw when he came back from Europe after World War II, the New York Harbor and the Statue of Liberty."

"On up the Hudson we then stopped for the night at Haverstraw, NY, marina, a 1000 wet slip marina, WOW. On up the Hudson we passed by the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant. Last night we had dinner with Don and Linda White, a couple that we met at Nashville, Tennessee, while on vacation at Opryland Hotel and Resort. Don and Linda told us then that they had a family marina on the Hudson River, and we kept their information and told them that we would see them again, and we did. Then on up the Hudson, by and through, the Catskill Mountain Range, by West Point, and are here tonight at the village of Catskill, NY. We continue to meet other boaters doing the LOOP, some that we have met along the way since leaving Southport, and some that we have not met before. Weather and equipment permitting, it is on to Albany, NY, and the start of the Erie Canal."

Thanks for listening to our saga.

Robert & Kay

C-Life