Day 61 Anchored in front of the Vanderbilt Mansion Part 1

This day made up for the last two. We saw some magnificent and majestic scenery starting with Sing Sing Prison. It is huge and does not look like a place of incarceration and the property runs just about down to the river. Mo and Kev took us to the Bear Mountain State Park last year and John said, "Someday we are going to boat under that bridge" and, by gosh - today we did. After passing under the bridge, we were met with the Catskills Mountains embracing the river on both sides. The pictures cannot not capture the beauty - waterfalls cascading down to the Hudson, craggy rocks, and lots and lots of trains running along side of us. There are more "castles" on this river than anywhere else in the US, I think. The Bannerman Arsenol or castle was on a small island in the middle of the channel. An eccentric Scotsman and munitions dealer built it in 1900 to look like his homeland. He used it as a warehouse and summer home. Hmmm, nice place to vacation with the kids?! It was abandoned in 1960, but the NY Preservation Society is diligently trying to restore it for public viewing. Continued in part 2.