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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Everyone
passes us by; we couldn't be more pleased
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Clockwise
from left: Mother with child in walker outstrips
our boat; the yada yada yada
goes on by (later they asked to take a picture
of the boat); and two paddlers at Widewater
set a pace we can't equal.
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August 02: We
took the boat up to Lockport this afternoon and launched
at Widewater. We went up to the lift bridge near downtown,
then turned around and went with the current to a bridge
a few miles away. We were on the water for about three
hours, and we saw a lot more people on the towpath and
a lot more boats than we usually do. Many folks shouted
praise for the boat; I wonder if that will ever get
old ... .
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