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Henderson Lake from the Dam

There is a 450 acre man-lake up at the Tahawus Tract, known as Henderson Lake, with campsites around it. It is where the Hudson River has been damed up.

Taken on Saturday May 21, 2011 at Tahawus.

Looking Across the Hudson River

Not too bad of an afternoon the on the Hudson. Fairly sunny, and flat water. Much of the Hudson River between Albany and Troy is undeveloped, because when suburbia was creeping in during the 1950s and 1960s, the the Hudson River was not somewhere you would want to live near, much less kayak along.

Taken on Saturday May 7, 2011 at Kayak the Hudson.

Another Great Blue Heron

One of the things you will see paddling along the Hudson River in a kayak is a lot of Great Blue Herons along the shoreline. They like fish, and outside of the cities, the river is often quite quiet and undeveloped.

Taken on Saturday May 19, 2012 at Kayak the Hudson.

Albany Plan 1695

Albany Plan 1695

Here is a Map of Albany showing the stockade in 1695, overlaying the contemporary arerial photo of Albany. At the top of the hill, was Fort Frederick sitting atop State Street Hill (Capitol Hill) it replaced the earlier Fort Orange along the Hudson River, offering protection for Pearl Street and lands below it. John Wolcott told me that Pearl Street was likely a corruption of "Peril Street" due to the risk of being shot by invaders down from the top of the hill.