Tuesday, May 20

And this was this morning in Waterford, NY. The beginning of the Erie Canal. We learned that several of the boats on the wall, we knew. Tumbleweed is a Canadian boat that we had traveled with last year on the Great Loop and again we met them a couple weeks ago in Cape May. LadyHawke, Dick and Lynne Davenport who we have traveled many times with and whom we once shared a finger dock at Katlynn Marina. Recess, another Canadian boat that we had met in Solomons this fall while going south. It's that time of year when most everyone heads home.






This is one of the gates that control the amount of water that comes down through to Waterford before the flight of locks. Two years ago when so much water came down through the canal I am sure these could have been found closed. Several of the locks are still rebuilding.