Messing
About in Boats, Boots, and Byways:
Archive of Erie Canal Journal entries for 2003: 11 October
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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.
Fall
colors drop in on the canal
11
October 03: This
marks about the 12th month that we've been visiting the
canal at Middleport Guard Gate. The story this time was
the fall colors and falling leaves.
We
put in at the boat launch near the Guard Gate and went
upstream to the Middleport Lift Bridge and back, at dusk.
It was a warm and beautiful fall day. After a week of
frosty temperatures, this was an unexpected treat.
Red
hues of fall offer a variation on the theme of reflections. |
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The
color of the day was red; the yellows and oranges aren't
in force yet. |
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The
canal is never the same twice, and I never tire of its
offerings. |
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Middleport
Guard Gate with bicycles and red fall colors. |
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Rippling
water reflects those reds from the bank. |
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More
fall reds of reflection. |
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There
wasn't a cloud in the sky, which made for a subtle sunset. |
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Looking
east out the back of the boat while heading west. |
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The Reverend helps two boaters rescue their pumpkin,
which had tumbled overboard. We were able to effect
a rescue with a few strokes of the yuloh. |
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They head back to their boat, pumpkin in hand, on the
towpath. |
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Orange finish to a red day on the water. |
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