Photographing the event was difficult because my camera doesn't have an optical viewfinder and it was bright enough out that I was having trouble seeing my LCD display but I guessed a lot and got the following 19 pictures that are representative of the event. The first group of pictures were made as the SCA and Enterprise came upriver, passed by and continued upriver to Nyack where it turned around to come back downriver.
We noticed a lot of seagulls flying around beneath the SCA as it approached.
That is a NYPD helicopter that flew over the river several times prior to the approach of the SCA and then took up stationkeeping down around the west side heliport which keyed us in to the imminent arrival.
It wasn't until the SCA had almost passed us on the downriver run that we finally say the little escort jet.
Here are the dates for events concerned with getting Enterprise on display at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum.
Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum graphic
It does not seem to me that it should take a tug and barge two days to get from JFK airport, the purple pin near the center of this map, out to sea, around through the Verrazano Narrows, and up the North River to 44 St. I suspect they will only be moving during daylight hours and will moor overnight in Gravesend Bay or tie up at Stapleton.
Google Maps graphic
Blogger has been making changes to their back end which have had an adverse impact on the formatting of the sidebar and footer of my blog. Unfortunately I don't know enough of the new HTML5 and CSS to know what to change to make things look the way they used to.
