Wednesday, June 27 Continued

FINALLY, a good internet signal :)  Check out the following Erie Canal pictures:

Waiting for the first lock on the Erie Canal to open.

Here we go!

Check out the height of those walls (you can especially tell by looking straight ahead to the gate; there's a wall as tall as the gate underneath the gate)!!!

We're in!  This time there are SOME lines available at this lock (as well as the pipe to connect our line to the lock wall)!

Coming out of the first lock on the Erie Canal, and here's the next one ready to go!  This is the "Waterford Flight" that I told you about in the previous blog.

When we arrived in the next lock, we noticed this gentleman taking some video of our boat.  We started talking with him, and he asked if he could video us on the "Waterford Flight".  Turns out he's a professor from a local university in New York, and on his journeys throughout the summer, he likes to take videos and then take bits and pieces and put it ALL into a 2 minute video!!!  He shared the link with Jacqui, so we're working on how we might get the final copy, hopefully sooner than later :)

We're getting there!

This is leaving lock 6, the last of the "Waterford Flight".  We've been raised a total of 169 feet in less than 2 miles; I'd hate to look back down!

Just when we thought we could take a rest, we saw this!!!

Turns out this is a guard gate.  There are many spread throughout the Erie Canal.  The purpose of the guard gates is that if there's a break in the canal, the guard gate would be lowered to prevent water from long stretches of the canal being released.

Our crew finally gets a little R & R :)