Messing
About in Boats, Boots, and Byways:
Archive of Erie Canal Journal entries for 2002:
13 September 02 |
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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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New
navigation lights give safety and joy
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Top
left: There have been subtle changes in the approach
of fall colors since our last trip on the canal,
but the full blast of fall color is not here yet.
Top right: More of the subtle colors of early
fall on the canal. At left: A rare stand of pine
trees on the canal near Orangeport.
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13
Sept. 02:
We spent about five hours on the canal this evening, with
the lion's share done after dark. We put in at Widewater
in Lockport and went as far as Orangeport Bridge. The new
navigation lights worked without a hitch, though I did spend
the early part of the day installing them. I never did get
this fancy switch with fuses to work that I bought at Obersheimer's.
The leaves are just beginning to turn, and I spent a lot
of my available digital camera chip space trying to catch
the subtle change toward fall. The other amazing thing about
this trip (every trip on the canal is amazing in some way)
was the colors in the sunset. For a bunch of pix of the
sunset, click
here. |
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