Messing
About in Boats, Boots, and Byways:
Archive of Erie Canal Journal entries for 2002:
21 October 03 |
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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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Leaves
and temperature begin to drop for fall
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At
left: There is an abandoned dockwall along the
canal just upstream from the locks at Lockport,
and at the end of the abandoned dockwall is a
short, steep launch ramp. It would take a 4-wheel-drive
pickup truck to pull off a launch here. Below:
I've been taking pix at Widewater for several
weeks, off and on, and this is one shows the turn
of the season.
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Oct. 02: We
took a ride along the canal from its intersection with
Niagara Falls Boulevard. We saw some special Nautical
... Ironical stuff and took pix, and also
took some pix of the abandoned ramp in downtown Lockport
and some pix of the turned leaves out at Widewater. It
was cold, and almost snowing, but not quite, which has
been the situation all week. |
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