Messing
About in Boats, Boots, and Byways:
Archive of Erie Canal Journal entries for 2003: 06 July
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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.
Dog
day afternoon
06
July 03: To
cap our holiday weekend, we took the Harmonica up to Widewater
and spent a few hours on the Erie Canal. It was fine and hot
to begin but cool and lovely by the time we got back to the
dock at dusk.
We're
still scheming on when we'll spend the night drifting on the
canal. Soon, I think.
I'm
also realizing that we are beginning to repeat ourselves as
far as put-in places go on the section of the canal that we
like. It's still wonderful to simply be in a boat on the water,
though.
It
was a dog day afternoon, but in a good way. This bird
dog was retrieving a ball for its humans. |
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And
this little Scotty was topside in a big power boat form
Boston, MA. Notice the wake that our little cork boat
has to deal with when the big boats go by. |
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Reflections
of plant and rock |
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Reflections
with light variations. |
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Mirror
image of rock and substantial rock reflection. |
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