Liberty Island, New York - 27th March 2007
Today's trip is to head down to Battery Park and get a ferry out to see Liberty Island. It's not without its complexity as at first we end up with tickets to some sort of non-stopping cruise. Luckily, we manage to tout one of them off to a passing Swedish tourist before getting the correct ticket for the Liberty/Ellis circle. It's not like the old days (i.e. 1995) when you could turn up and visit the statue, as we discover when a park ranger informs us that we should have booked at least a day in advance if we wanted to go in to the statue. Meh. Nevertheless, it's still a nice wander around and a chance to look at Manhattan from across the river and to once more see "Lady Liberty" close up.
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The bagel bar near to the Marriott hotel in the upper East Side, where we stop for breakfast before getting the subwat downtowon |
A cluster of buildings around the ferry terminal in Battery Park |
A passing seagull |
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Another seagull doe sits thing as we look back towards a classic view of Manhattan |
The financial district of Manhattan rises up at the confluence of the East and Hudson rivers |
The back of the ferry and the three boroughs of New Jersey, Manhattan and Brooklyn |
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Another seagull shot, and Manhattan in the distance |
A first close-up view of the Statue of Liberty |
Lady Liberty looks out towards Manhattan |
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In the ferry, bulkhead lights illuminate the way whilst the ceilings are stuffed with life jackets |
"Old Glory" flutters in the wind on Liberty Island |
A tourist does a bizarre pose |
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Izzy flakes out |
The US flag and the Statue of Liberty |
Iz roams around with "Camera B" - the trusty old Pentax *ist D |
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Whatchoo lookin' at? |
A telescope - feed 1 quarter to see right in to office windows in Manhattan |
Isobel gives the peeper-scope a go |
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The Empire State building |
A peeper-scope that has lost its eyes |
Lady Liberty holds the flaming beacon up |
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The statue: a solitary tourist gets close up |
Isobel sits on the ground and giggles at stuff |
Standard, but nevertheless iconic, view of the statue |
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The 10mm fisheye provides some interesting distortion |
Ellis Island's old immigration center |
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The Ellis Island ferry's life belt |
Back in Battery Park, once of those weird people-dressed-as-statues en-snares a passing tourist |
A bunch of break-dance boyz do their thing |
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Caught in mid-tumble |
One of the brek-dance dudes goes around collecting offerings |
The finale: a beak-dance dude limbos through a line of teenage girls |
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