The Erie Canal has been such a pleasant and peaceful place, with beautiful sunsets seen from our dock at Ess Kay.
Canada is calling, however, so this morning we cast off the lines and pulled out with Eschaton and new friends Jack and Lynn, aboard Felix, their catamaran sailboat. We soon turned north into the 24 mile Oswego Canal, with its seven locks leading to Lake Ontario. The first lock we came to has a bridge right at the downstream end, so when the canal doors open, the yellow bridge goes up.
Many of the canal locks have a spillway adjacent to them, with no barrier to prevent someone who lost their engine or made a wrong turn from going right over.
The banks of the Oswego are high and heavily forested. Very lovely and reminding us of the upper Mississippi back home.
We are tied off to the lock wall, just a mile and one lock from the southeast shore of Lake Ontario. It's like a park with mowed lawn, benches and a walking path. Notice in the picture, the "fence" on the other side of the boat and the rushing water beyond which is about 6 inches lower than the level of the canal and meets up with the canal water just below the last lock. We're right in the center of the town, but the rushing water provides a nice background sound.
Tomorrow night we will be in Canada and will be there for about 4-6 weeks. We checked into using our AT&T air card in Canada, and the cost for using it about as much as we normally do would be over $6000 for a month !!!! So, guess what? The air card will not be used ... but if/when we get to a marina with WiFi, I will do a blog. If none appears for a while, that's why, don't worry, we're all fine and having a wonderful time ... and I'll get cha caught up when we get back into the USA.
2 comments:
Kind of stupid to post this as you won't be able to reply, at least for a while. But I'm curious how passing through the border works on a boat. Do they have Border Patrol?! Maybe one of you other, more knowledgeable, readers can answer for Liz!
Shingebiss is anchored out tonight but we're in a marina with wifi, so I can respond. We checked in with Canadian Customs via telephone... and although we have to have certain paperwork, there is no one to check it. We are issued a number we have to display on our boat. We hear it's much tougher getting back into our own country. We'll let you know in 4-6 weeks.
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