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| Turn Right for Oswego canal, left to go to Buffalo. I like these signs. |
Today, after Lock 23 on the Erie Canal we came to Three Rivers Point, where the Oswego and Seneca Rivers meet, and turned north into the Oswego River and canal. The Oswego Canal has 7 locks, all together bringing us down 118 ft to the level of Lake Ontario. It was very calm when we left Brewerton this morning, but then the breeze came up. In lock 5 we really had trouble holding the boat against the wall with the wind in the lock. Must have been just the direction it was coming from. We were glad to get out of that lock, and actually wondered if we should tie up there for a while. In the end we came through the last 3 locks with no problem and tied up at a municipal dock on the west side of the canal, just nicely inside the entrance from Lake Ontario. Fred and Sigrid in Jumbo are tied up across the canal from us; we walked around this afternoon and had a visit with them. Oswego is a pretty town, like many others they have built a park along the canal and made nice areas for people to sit or walk. Many people fishing from both sides of the canal today.
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| Turn left for Erie Canal lock 23 |
The weather looks good for tomorrow, so we plan to head off across the east end of the lake to Kingston tomorrow morning.
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| Oswego has a Tim Hortons, first one we've seen since we left Canada |
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