For anyone visiting (or living in) the Catskills, a visit to the Saugerties Lighthouse is essential. It’s a Victorian-era brick lighthouse set on a sandy peninsula in the middle of the Hudson River.
It’s a good idea to read up on tidal info here because the path can get soggy at high tide.
It is a short walk to a great place to have a picnic, or to watch the boats go by.
This was taken at high tide looking west back towards the mountains.
A sandy part of the path.
Believe it or not, this beautiful building is a B & B, and if you book way ahead you can wake up in the middle of the Hudson River. The history of the place is on their excellent website.
We visited on a day with a very rainy forecast so no one was there but this area is usually filled with picnic-ers and swimmers.
This is high tide, but at low tide this is a nice place to swim.
View of the Hudson looking east.
Native beauty Joe Pye Weed in the foreground.
Monkey's Wedding 
lovely sweetie pie