Messing
About in Boats, Boots, and Byways:
Archive of Erie Canal Journal entries for 2004: 12 June
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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.
Sun,
wind, and little friends
12
June 04: We
took a ride on the Erie Canal, beginning at the launch ramp
at Albion and heading upstream to Eagle Harbor, and back.
The
sun was out, the sky was clear, the wind was stiff, and we saw
a few interesting animals, including a regal dog, a soaring
hawk, and a turtle on the towpath.
The
wind was as stiff as on any day we've been on the canal, and
it was coming from the east, which is the reverse of the usual.
That meant the wind helped us on the upstream leg and hindered
us on the downstream leg.
