After leaving Brewerton on Saturday, May 26, we continued west on the Erie, instead of turning north on the Oswego Canal. As we go through the next few locks we are climbing again. Further west we turn south on the Cayuga and Seneca Canal, go through one lock and then turn west towards Senica Falls, went through a double lock, and arrived in Senica Falls where we spend the night tied up to the town wall where they have free overnight stay with complementary power and water.
Double lock on Cayuga & Seneca Canal open for us to enter.
On Sunday we continued west on the canal through one more lock and entered the north end of Senica Lake. The run down the lake is 26 miles, we put the boat up on a plane and arrived in Watkins Glen at about 2:30 pm. We deployed the bikes and rode to Watkins Glen State Park to see the spectacular waterfall which has cut a gully 400' deep and two miles long during the last 12,000 years. The water that goes over this falls, dumps into Seneca Lake, which dumps into the Cayuga and Seneca Canal, which dumps into the Erie Canal, which dumps into the Oswego Canal, which dumps into Lake Ontario, which dumps into the St. Lawrence River, which dumps into the Atlantic. This process takes 25 years from the time the water flows down the falls in Watkins Glen.
The falls at Watkins Glen State Park, it's impossible to capture what we saw on film!
Looking north up Seneca Lake from Looking south towards Watkins Glen
Watkins Glen. from about 8 miles up the lake.
Today, Monday, May 28 we are again on the town wall at Senica Falls. Waterloo, NY is only 3 miles to the west and it was at Waterloo that Memorial Day was first declaired, this was a pretty happining place this weekend. Tonight however there are only three boats that will spend the night.
ODYSSEE sitting at the wall in Seneca Falls.
Tomorrow we proceed back east to the Oswego Canal on our way up to Lake Ontario.
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