Sunset on the canal.

    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.

  

• Erie Canal Journal entries for 2003 -- listed by headings with links to files
• Erie Canal Journal entries for 2003 -- posted in one file

• Erie Canal Journal entries for 2002 -- listed by headings with links to files
• Erie Canal Journal entries for 2002 -- posted in one file

A cold time was had by all

This is the downstream of the two lift bridges in Brockport. The view is to the north.

While I was taking pictures, three men were working down in the canal bed. They were installing scaffolding. Don't know why.

Looking downstream through the girders of the lift bridge.It was 18 degrees F., and a brisk wind was blowing, too.

Telephoto shot of the upstream lift bridge at Brockport. That's a work barge under the bridge.