Whitehall, NY

Sunrise over the Green Mountains

Crown Point Bridge

Monday morning we start south for Whitehall as the wind picks back up. It would have been too windy to come down the main Lake with the mast over the deck today. The Lake south of Westport gets narrower becoming more like a river for the last 20 miles or so. Early in the afternoon I spy a fuzzy snake swimming from the New York side to the Vermont side. As we get closer I realize it is a squirrel, essentially swimming across “Lake Champlain”. 
 

Squirrel swimming to Vermont

 
Years ago I gave our friend Genie a hard time when she said they saw a squirrel swimming across the Champlain Canal, so I immediately email her on what we saw. She writes back “Hmm didn’t you make some wise guy comment when we told you we saw a swimming squirrel”, Yeah that would be me.

An hour later we see another squirrel swimming from the Vermont side to New York. I guess it was getting too crowded in Vermont.

Squirrel swimming to New York

I was expecting to see this next  !

Approaching the lock at Whitehall, first lock up

The up locks are more turbulent and Lock 12 is the worst

Around 3:30 we reach the first lock at Whitehall. We lock-up and tie up to the Free Wall at Whitehall, power and water. We immediately power up and turn on the AC after another warm afternoon. We decide on dinner at Busty’s a new rustic BBQ place a short walk away. Linda and I split a very good rib diner and still can not finish it all. We head back to the boat and close up for rain later at night from the northern remnants of Florence.