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Motorcycling the Adirondack Coast (Lake Champlain Region)
Taking a break at the Westport Boat Launch (Credit: Kim Rielly) “Living on the Adirondack Coast of the Lake Champlain Region has its distinct benefits especially if you are a fan of two-wheeled...
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West Champlain Hills: Our Bountiful Home
Scene in the West Champlain Hills (Credit: John Davis) Most of us who live in New York’s Adirondack Park are here because it is a beautiful, relatively wild and natural place. Winters are hard to...
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El Niño Wildlife Sightings: Adirondack Coast
If you’ve enjoyed recent El Niño wildlife sightings on the Essex blog (“Welcoming the CoyWolf: Whoever It May Be“, “Wrong to Kill Coyotes, Wolves and CoyWolves” and “Snow Geese By Whallons Bay“), we...
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Le Bistro du Lac
Seaplanes at Bistro du Lac in Westport, NY (Source: Bernard Perillat) One of summer’s finest dining experience on Lake Champlain dinner in Westport at the Le Bistro du Lac. Whether you fly in by...
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Serpentine Splendors: Snakes of Split Rock Wildway
Here on the equable Adirondack Coast, we are blessed with more snake species than colder parts of the Northeast. By northern forest standards we are fairly rich in amphibians, especially salamanders;...
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Bald Eagles in Essex
I saw a young bald eagle recently flying over the lake just off from the hamlet. The ducks by the ferry dock ignored him but I bet they were keeping a close watch nevertheless. ~ Rob Ivy (Essex Column,...
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Tuesday Night Potluck
Tuesday Night Potluck takes place weekly at St. John’s Church in Essex, NY. Every Tuesday, there’s a gathering in Essex of regulars who meet for dinner. Usually the menu contains fresh, local food made...
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Biker Slights Adirondack Coast
Essex-Charlotte ferry crossing, Charlotte dock. Recently The New York Times published the article”3 Favorite Journeys on a Bike” that chronicles three bicyclists’ traveling routes in different parts of...
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Lake Champlain Windsurfing Festival 2013
Adirondack Coast Visitors Bureau will welcome the American Windsurfing Tour (AWT) to Plattsburgh on September 28th and 29th, 2013 for the first ever Lake Champlain Windsurfing Festival. Please join...
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Motorcycling the Adirondack Coast (Lake Champlain Region)
Taking a break at the Westport Boat Launch (Credit: Kim Rielly) “Living on the Adirondack Coast of the Lake Champlain Region has its distinct benefits especially if you are a fan of two-wheeled...
View ArticleClik here to view.
West Champlain Hills: Our Bountiful Home
Scene in the West Champlain Hills (Credit: John Davis) Most of us who live in New York’s Adirondack Park are here because it is a beautiful, relatively wild and natural place. Winters are hard to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
El Niño Wildlife Sightings: Adirondack Coast
If you’ve enjoyed recent El Niño wildlife sightings on the Essex blog (“Welcoming the CoyWolf: Whoever It May Be“, “Wrong to Kill Coyotes, Wolves and CoyWolves” and “Snow Geese By Whallons Bay“), we...
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William Gilliland Doodle
William Gilliland through the eyes (and pen) of a doodler. (virtualDavis on August 19, 2013) If William Gilliland were wondering the streets of Essex, NY this summer and I’d had the opportunity to ogle...
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The Doodle Back Story
Old Firehouse in Essex, NY (Credit: George Davis) I’ve been scribbling Essex doodles for months. Fancy buildings. Falling down buildings. Quirky characters who pass by and through both. And some who...
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Serpentine Splendors: Snakes of Split Rock Wildway
Here on the equable Adirondack Coast, we are blessed with more snake species than colder parts of the Northeast. By northern forest standards we are fairly rich in amphibians, especially salamanders;...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Bald Eagles in Essex
I saw a young bald eagle recently flying over the lake just off from the hamlet. The ducks by the ferry dock ignored him but I bet they were keeping a close watch nevertheless. ~ Rob Ivy (Essex Column,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Tuesday Night Potluck
Tuesday Night Potluck takes place weekly at St. John’s Church in Essex, NY. Every Tuesday, there’s a gathering in Essex of regulars who meet for dinner. Usually the menu contains fresh, local food...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Biker Slights Adirondack Coast
Essex-Charlotte ferry crossing, Charlotte dock. Recently The New York Times published the article”3 Favorite Journeys on a Bike” that chronicles three bicyclists’ traveling routes in different parts...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Lake Champlain Windsurfing Festival 2013
Adirondack Coast Visitors Bureau will welcome the American Windsurfing Tour (AWT) to Plattsburgh on September 28th and 29th, 2013 for the first ever Lake Champlain Windsurfing Festival. Please join...
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Conquering Coon Mountain in Winter
I am confident that the usual blanket of snow will arrive just a little bit later than expected this year… [so] even if we have springlike conditions in January, we’ll find a way to get outside and...
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