The view back to the bridges in Old Saybrook
Coming up on Essex Yacht Club. Just south of here we saw several geese flying and a bald eagle.
A Nifty Rock formation between Essex and Hadlyme
Gillete Castle from the south. Build by an actor, William Gillete, who played Sherlock Holmes on stage near the beginning of the century. Now a state park.
The Hadlyme ferry docked on the west side of the river.
Closer view of Gillete Castle.
The East Haddam swing bridge. Just to the right is the historic Goodspeed Opera House, where some Broadway plays had their first showing.
The Connecticut Yankee Nuclear power plant. (No longer operational, but the old fuel's still there.)
A neat overlook in Hurd State Park in East Hampton. We've looked down from there many times.
Swans in the river just south of Pratt and Whitney's pier in Middletown.
St. Clements. Formerly owned by Wesleyan, now a privately owned banquet hall.
The Middletown power plant, one of the infamous "Filthy Five" or "Sooty Six"
