Erie Canal Part 2

I will try to catch the blog up with where we are now, but pictures are not cooperating uploading. Here is an overview of where we stopped.

August 14-15, Tonawanda
August 16, Middleport
August 17 Holley
August 18-19, Spencerport
 August 20-21, Fairport. The locks start up at this point.
 August 22, Newark
August 23, Cooper's Marina
August 24, Baldwinsville

This is Culvert Road. The only road to go under the canal. It was built in 1823. The road has obviously been resurfaced a few times. It was weird to go over a road. Unfortunately the picture doesn't show how far down it really was.

Oliver is bored.

 

This is near the town of Albion where a 60 foot sinkhole caused damaged to the canal and closed it for 2-3 weeks. Albion is also the home of George Pullman. He got the idea for sleeping cars by seeing the packet boats on the canal.

 

 

This was the town of Holley. It was a great place to walk on lit paths and around a park and to a waterfall. The lift bridge operator was right at the boat when we pulled in to give us information and welcome us. At night there was a concert by the "Who Dats". They were pretty good. We met a Canadian couple that had the "eh" at the end of every sentence (I loved it) and a man from England that solo sails in the summers out of Detroit. His name is Ian and he now lives in the south of Spain. We met him at many ports or passing.

 

 

Spencerport - this is the museum I checked out after Ollie's walk. Can you imagine that tail in a museum! This was the depot that moved a couple of times.

 

 

Fairport was our next stop. This is a very popular spot. The town is known for its preservation of old homes and buildings. It is also known for the only lift bridge that is on a incline and has a tilt.

 

We were treated to a classic car show and concert there also. This band was more into jazz.

 

 

Ollie is not sure about this mule carved from wood.

Also in Fairport, I was walking by the tour boat at the docks and looked up and everyone was in pink. I asked if it was associated with breast cancer, I mentioned I survived and they said come on board. I declined since I was not in pink, was coming back from a run and they were shooting a video for the "pink glove campaign" to win $10,000 for their areas cancer center. I did put on my pink hat and take pictures as they went by for the video.

The dockmasters office is located in the old train depot # 22. Retired men are the dockmasters and all and the 2 we met were very talkative and informative. One was a retired teacher.

Where's my boat?

 

Here are some pictures of the canal as we traveled these past days.

 

 

More later.