The NYC Harbor Tour

Today's agenda was a simple one: a tour of the New York harbor. Want to see? Of course you do.

The tour was narrated by a gentleman with a voice not unlike that of Laurence Fishburne as Morpheus in The Matrix. "This is not the tour for ... Ellis ... Island." He had lots of great trivia, some of which I may remember and share with you.

We started in Battery Park, which looks like this.



We worked our way North a bit along the Manhattan shoreline, including these Cesar Pelli buildings of the World Financial Center (I know I called them the World Trade Center earlier, so I guess I was w-w-w-wrong) ...



We started to get closer to the Statue of Liberty, but these two were in the way ...



And here's the money shot of the Statue herself. Did you know her seven points are for the seven seas and continents? And that the 25 facets in her crown are the 25 jewels? And that her face is the face of the sculptor's mother? And that its real name is something like "Liberty Enlightens The World?" Now you do.



So now we're headed back toward Manhattan. Want to see it from a distance? Here you go.



Heading toward the Brooklyn Bridge, here's another shot of the island. If you look closely in the middle you can see Wall Street and Trinity Cathedral.



We went a bit underneath the Brooklyn Bridge, then back to Battery Park.



I'd hoped to walk part of the Brooklyn Bridge, but didn't get the time. It's part of a list of things I'd hoped to see ... including Rockefeller Center, the NY Public Library, the Museum of Natural History, getting coffee in Greenwich Village (where the next Bob Dylan or Joni Mitchell would sing and play guitar just for me). Ah well.