
1 A beautiful Sunday morning for a CT River brunch cruise leaving from the CT River Museum in Essex

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3 The inlet to North Cove and the substantial shoreline mansions in Essex

4 Cormorants drying themselves on the channel marker at Brockway Island

5 Happy brunchers!

6 Leaving the CT River Museum dock behind

7 Boarding the Onrust

8 Approaching Ely's Ferry in Lyme, which started as a horse carriage ferry in 1660 and later became a steamship dock in the 1800's

9 The ship is the Onrust, a reproduction of the Dutch yacht with which Captain Adriaen Block explored the rivers of the Northeast during the early 1600's