Erie Canal

Another beautiful day for our canal cruise.  This is the current fee schedule.  This isn't just a tourist attraction.

The rock house on the right had to be moved to accomodate the canal - must have been quite a job.

This stone structure is used now as an educational facility for the Erie Canal history

Young couple who wanted to have a traditional English wedding. He
had the chapel built first and then the house.

Example of so many of the houses along the canal and even through the countryside.
I have no idea what the triangles are in the foreground.

Lift Bridge -

Upside down railroad bridge - had something to do with height above the canal.

A Bum Boat - these went out to inspect the walls & locks.  They also lit
the kerosene lights along the canal.

The lock gates opening - wonder if they have a boat hook at the bottom.
There's a lock on the Okeechobee that has one - I know because I dropped it
when we locked through!

We were probably all singing "15 Miles on the Erie Canal".  Do you know it?
Russ had never heard of it before.  15 miles was considered the maximum
distance the horses or mules or even dogs could tolerate in a day.