This was a downhill day in the Canal Systems of New York. We left Sylvan Beach at about six thirty this morning and headed out across Oneida Lake. We were running in a real hazy morning and could just barely see the buoys which were placed about a half mile apart. The sailing ship Nina which is a replica of the ones which sailed over to America left before we did. We caught them about half way over the lake which is twenty-eight miles long. We finished crossing the lake just as the sun burned through the haze. We then went through a few more locks and turned to the right at three rivers junction and took the Oswego Canal to the shore of Lake Ontario where we have bought fuel for tomorrow in Oswego and the weather holding we will be running across the lake to the Canadian side. This will be close to sixty miles of open water so we will do like this morning, start early and hope for the ripples on the water we had today. If this does occur we will be very thankful. Today we saw numerous small flocks of geese still wending their way north for the summer. There were a number of pairs that call New York home which have already nested and the chicks have been born. They look like little puff balls following there parents around in the water and some of them were up in peoples yards eating grass and I am sure they were leaving them presents as well. The countryside changed a little today to more pine trees and hardwoods than the day before.
The locks also were steeper and dropped us quickly to the level of Lake Ontario.
While in Canada I will write the blog every day as always but will not post it because of the high cost of roaming time while in Canada. I may post it once a week. So if there are no new issues just bear with me until I get back into the States and I will post all of them at once. The same goes for photographs taken in Canada while there.
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