Messing
About in Boats, Boots, and Byways:
Archive of Erie Canal Journal entries for 2004:01 August
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One
of our favorite destinations is the Erie Canal, which originally
began in downtown Buffalo, and later when the canal was widened
and renamed the Erie Canal Barge Canal, the canal began, and
still begins, at North Tonawanda on the Niagara River where
Tonawanda Creek empties into the river.
We have biked in five-mile bites from Lockport to Brockport,
and we've rowed a time or two, too.
Canal
with cream and sugar
01
August 04: I
like coffee, a lot, but this was too much even for me. The rains
of July have turned the color of the canal's waters, an ambiguous
blue at best, to a light coffee color.
The
Reverend and I returned to Medina, for a
second visit in a week's time. I wanted to get more daylight
pix than I got in the previous
trip.
We
like the stretch from the Medina Guard Gate to the Lift Bridge
in the village. It took us a long time to find an access point.
Even if you know the canal some, it is hard to cover all the
places where roads cross and boat ramps await.
The problem with the Medina boat ramp was that we had used it
a few years ago but couldn't find it again for the longest time.
It's on Bates Road, just east of the village.
