A visit to upstate New York and Vermont – Crossing Lake Champlain

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On the way to Fort Ticonderoga, we drove up the Vermont side of Lake Champlain. Of course, this meant that we had to cross Lake Champlain to get to the fort, which is on the New York Side. To do so we took the Ticonderoga Ferry, which describes itself as follows:

The Ticonderoga Ferry provides historic, scenic seven-minute daytime crossings on Lake Champlain between Ticonderoga, New York and Shoreham, Vermont. Connecting the Lake George and Adirondack regions of New York, with the Middlebury and central Green Mountain areas of Vermont. We are located at 4831 VT Rte 74 just off of NY Rte 22 in Ticonderoga, New York and off of VT Rte 22A via VT Rte 73 in Orwell or VT Rte 74 in Shoreham, Vermont.

The ride was quite pretty, but short and a little slow (important to me because I needed to relieve myself). Although I wasn’t focusing too well, I recall that it was also rather expensive. On the way back from the fort we decided to take a different route that didn’t involve taking ferries.

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Taken with a Sony RX10 IV

A Visit to Boston – Day Two – Bus Tour Continued – on the bus

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And off we went on the bus tour. It was quite difficult to take pictures from the moving bus. Add to that that the driver/guide seemed more interested in telling jokes than telling us much about the things we were seeing and I didn’t take many pictures. I only vaguely remember what he was saying so at the moment I don’t have much to say about the pictures. If I get a chance, I’ll look them up and add some captions/descriptions.

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Taken with a Sony A6000 and 18-135mm f3.5-5.6 OSS.

A Visit to Boston – Day One – Around the North End

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Some time ago I took the train up to Boston to meet up with some Canadian friends who were visiting there. The hotel we were staying in was in the North End. None of us got there until late afternoon so these pictures were taken in the North End and along the Charles River from then until it started to get dark.

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Taken with a Sony A6000 and 18-135mm f3.5-5.6 OSS.

Boat out of water

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I was walking around Irvington-on-Hudson in June of this year when I came across this boat on a side street. From the lettering it seems to be connected to the Fire Service. While it was not all that far from the river it was still a bit of a surprise to see it.

Taken with a Sony A7IV and Tamron Di III VXD A056SF 70-180mm f2.8.