Messing
About in Boats, Boots, and Byways:
Archive of Erie Canal Journal entries for 2002 |
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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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It
was a good day ... a dink day
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Above
left and right: The
dink allowd me to get close to the banks, to
appreciate the textures of the rocks. At left:
Still only a hint of fall in the air.
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Oct. 02: We went to Widewater at Lockport today
to launch
the dink that I'm building. I took
a short row down the canal, past the amazing row of
hardwood trees on the south back below Widewater. There
was more fall color than the last time I was on the
canal, but it still is pretty subtle. We're hoping for
one more trip this season in the Harmonica, probably
at the end of this month, when we're taking some vacation
time.
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