One of the DC heat-beating adventures we discovered last weekend was a water taxi from Alexandria to Georgetown.
To begin the afternoon, we took the metro to King Street, ambled the 1.5 miles to the waterfront past shops, cafes and restaurants, and then hung out at the pier for a while, enjoying the cool breeze and the abundance of shade.
From there, we had the sharp idea to head back to DC via boat, hoping it would be cooler on the water (it was, slightly) and that it might be fun to see the usual sites from the upper deck of a boat (understatement! It was nifty!)The best part was that I had a sweet new 55-250mm telephoto zoom lens to try out, so I spent the ride alternating between photographing monuments and buildings on the shoreline (which I would never have been able to capture with my old 18-55mm lens) and shooting close-ups of the boats in the water around us (and the occasional commercial airliner), just because I could:
Can you guess what the following buildings are? (Hint: they're both in the District of Columbia, on the east bank of the Potomac. One of them is full of classified materials and the other once played host to a huge national scandal...)
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