Took the ferry today for the first time this year. Essex NY to Charlotte VT across frozen Lake Champlain.
Shot this snap with the phone, looking forward (east) about three minutes out of Essex, the lake depth about 400 feet here, stiff south wind blowing, a small lane of broken ice one ferryboat wide stretching out across the lake, thick ice both sides for miles, ducks in the open water ahead getting agitated by the boat and flying off, the chunks and slush rubbing against the hull making more noise than the engines, as the MV Gov. George Aiken plows ahead.
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Good picture, Gene.
I rode ferries too much when I lived on Vashon Island in Puget sound. No ice, but plenty of variables.
"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd."
~ Voltaire
Did you ever work @ the K2 Plant?
We got the Red,White & Blue from there!
The K2 plant was in its final stages when I moved to the island. Soon it was gone, IIRC.Loved the smell of the old SBC roastery as it wafted through the fog, though.
"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd."
~ Voltaire
Cool pic! That's just so far removed from my winter it seems like a different planet. I always tell the kids the morning temp in Lake Placid while they eat breakfast - they're amazed!
Forrest - in shorts and a t-shirt; outside before 6 AM
That ride back, heading west in the late afternoon with the sun going down over the Adirondacks is about the prettiest thing you've ever seen.....
Ain't that the truth. Good friend's former wife came from Charlotte. They had a camp right on this perfect little cove. Sitting on that porch, watching the sunset was as close to a perfect thing as you could get. Too bad they divorced!
I remember riding them, but never with ice still in the lake. One of the ferries on the lake was built in 1913. Coming up on a century in a few years!