Paddling the Hudson with Nancy
First time out: STUYVESANT LANDING My friend Nancy asked if I wanted to go kayaking with her on the Hudson River. It was June 20, 2020 and I thought that sounded pretty good. She borrowed a kayak for me, we met at her house in Valatie, and drove the two kayaks down to the river on the roof of her Subaru. Stuyvesant Landing is the name of the little place we went. It was not fancy but we got the kayaks into the water and paddled across the river and up the Coxsackie Creek. It was just gorgeous, a word I know I overuse but really the only word that works to describe so many of these kayak adventures, this one and the ones that follow. Here's a pic I found online of Stuyvesant Landing. Here's another. To back up my "not fancy" claim... Here's Nancy. aka "Nielson". A tree growing out of an exposed root ball on the east bank of the Hudson, just south of Stuyvesant. Here's a tree root ball at the mouth of the Coxsackie Creek. Here's me on a beach on