Messing About in Boats, Boots, and Byways: Archive of Erie Canal Journal entries for 2003: 03 May 03

  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.

• Erie Canal Journal entries for 2003 -- listed by headings with links to files
• Erie Canal Journal entries for 2003 -- posted in one file

• Erie Canal Journal entries for 2002 -- listed by headings with links to files
• Erie Canal Journal entries for 2002 -- posted in one file

  

Canal full and ready to roll

    03 May 03: I checked on the Erie Canal a few days ago, and it was more than half-full. Today, we went up to Lockport to launch the Quark, and the canal was full. The official start of the Navigation Season is Monday, May 05.

    The Quark launch was less than successful.

I'm tying up the Quark at Widewater in Lockport on the freshly refilled Erie Canal.