First to arrive at Liberty Park SONATA was the last to leave. In the Hudson we turned North at the Statute of Liberty, a vision of Auguste Bartholdi who in 1871 proposed the statute to President Grant. He then returned to Paris where the statute was formed in pieces of copper and placed on a platform engineered by Gustave Eiffel. This statute along with Ellis Island and the Central Railroad of New Jersey Terminal form what is known as the Liberty Trillogy. Ellis Island from 1900 to 1904 processed some 5,000 to 7,000 immigrants per day. In 1907 on one spectular day some 11,747 were processed. These immigrants then sought transportation on one of the some 300 trains per day departing from the New Jersey Terminal.
Passing Bouy 35 on our port side, to starboard we had the Brooklyn Bridge and the World Trade Center site, all in the morning haze.
Continuing up the Hudson River past the Empire State Building in the haze, we enjoyed observing the guard duty of the Coast Guard . . . Fleet Week in NYC . . . protecting the retired carrier Intrepid.
We missed not stopping at the 79th Street Marina, just four blocks from Central Park and near a number of great grocery stores. We continued on past Grant's Tomb and then under the George Washington Bridge . . . leaving the Atlantic Area . . . we are now on "Inland Waters".
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