Messing
About in Boats, Boots, and Byways:
Archive of Erie Canal Journal entries for 2002:
02 November 02 |
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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. |
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The
season of the Guard Gates begins
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At
left: Guard Gate ready for draining day on
the canal. Above left: Green grass, snow-white
picnic table top and still-full canal -- a
collision of images. Above: The launch ramp
at Middleport.
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02
Nov. 02: We went up to the canal at Middleport to
see if the dusting of snow that Western New York got overnight
would make for some good pix. There was a little more
snow still on the ground than there was closer to home,
and it was cold and windy. Still, there was a fisherman
in a small aluminum boat trolling around with a small
electric motor. The official end of the canal boating
season is tomorrow, so we are hoping to get a pic or two
of the process of shutting down and draining the canal,
later next week.
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