Travels and Explorations

I know it has been a while since I have put a new post up. And this one is mainly going to be a photo journal. First and foremost this is Sal, our dog riding along with us to go hiking. Although usually he is good and sleeps in the back of the car, he decided he needed to be closer to us.
Likewise his eagerness extends to staring out our back porch ever vigilant for squirrels or other dogs. The flopped over ear will always stay like that, malformed from birth. It makes him very foppish.

The follow few shot are from our exploration of Button Bay State Park and Mallet's Bay State Park. This seems to be the well shot up body of a Model T car or at least from that era. It was on a side trail in Mallet Bay.
Button Bay is a small park with a shoreline of fossilized clay. If you find the right spots you can see fossils from when Lake Champlain actually went north through the Saint Lawrence Seaway and was a salt water lake. This is a small point, the mountains in the distance are the Adirondacks.
I also got a new,... well used new kayak. It is a 14 foot Wilderness Systems Pungo 140. Hard plastic makes me feel much more comfortable taking it fishing or in shallow water. And it even comes in orange. It is very stable and even if it feels slow under my blades it is a nice boat. No name for it yet.
Another brilliant hike was up Hurricane Mountain in the Adirondacks. The top is bare rock with an abandoned fire tower. It was forecasted to rain but we had a good hike with only a couple of threatening cloud. The view from the top was stunning given the rather mild but very wet climb. Water was just running down the trails. Still, the view was a solid 360 of peaks and glacial valleys. Just amazing. These pictures do not do it justice. This is looking south toward Keene Valley I think.
Here is the firetower and the view is toward the northeast. Not a clear day but still...
Between my two kayaks and Heather's this is the set. The framework for my second skin-on-frame kayak is not included in the picture but it is a 14' boat so it would sit in the middle.
So that is all for now. Once I have more adventures I will try to post them up. I have been on the water twice with my new kayak but I did not bring a camera. However I did see a Bald Eagle on my last trip and now I know where the nest is I plan to return to the site with a real camera. Until then.....