Random Adventures...: Governors Island & Paterson Falls...

June 29, 2009

Governors Island

Governors Island is a small island not far from Manhattan

that use to be used by the Defense force and then the Coast Guard.

It was sold to New York City for $1 in 2003!

It was abandoned in 1996 and recently opened to the public

as some sort of national trust space, a lot of it is still very neglected

and you cannot enter many of the buildings, but they have cleared

bike paths around the island and what not! SO Mum, Dad and I

caught the train into the city, the subway to battery park and then

the ferry across to the island and had a good look around!

It was a nice ride around the island, from one side you had a

great view of the statue of liberty, and the other side lower

manhattan (wall street) area. There are replica canons in the old

fort, a prison and lots of houses and the like!

Housing for the captains and their families

Mum being the statue of liberty! The actual statue is really small in the back of the photo.

Me on my bike, I smacked my leg on the tray and that back and now have a STUNNING bruise on my leg! Silly me...

Dad and a canon (see the buildings of Manhattan in the background?)

The prison - i decided this is where the Zombies lived...it was creepy!

A rusty door on the prison

Looking up at Lower Manhattan

Paterson Falls

On Saturday we took Diana and went on an adventure to a town not far from us that use to be a thriving area, with several mills, electric generators, a silk factory and an assortment of other factories. Unfortunately it is no longer such a thriving area, but they do still have this waterfall in the middle of it!