Day 40 - Location: 42.21380N, 73.86477W

Downtown Catskill, NY - our home for the night

Typical old home along the Hudson River

Albany, NY - Capitol City of NY State

Pair of briges (car & railroad) accross the river

Historic Hudson River day today. A couple of surprises hit us this morning about the river. The first thing we noticed after we went through the Federal Lock at Troy, NY (last lock between us & NYC) was the effect the tides have on the river almost 150 miles from the ocean. The water level changes about 5 feet each time, affecting the current considerably. When coming out of the lock this morning the tide was still going down, and we were going up to 9.2 MPH until the tides changed and for most of the morning it slowed us down to 6.5 MPH, before changing again near the end of our day.

The other nice surprise was the lack of development along the banks of the Hudson. While by towns and cities both banks were built up, for the most part the banks looked pretty much as they must have looked like for old Henry Hudson, who in 1609 was hired by the Dutch East Indies Co (VOC) to explore the Hudson RIver.