Oswego, NY

We had eight locks to go through today in 24 miles. We were going to get to Oswego, NY and be ready to cross Lake Ontario. Here is where we left the Erie Canal and headed north up the Oswego Canal.

This waterway is also river-like. Lots of trees. There was a canal maintenance building with a few boats being worked on.

Bubba and Anne on Getaweigh were traveling with us. We were two boats in the first lock at Phenoix, NY. This town has a wall you can over night on and they have kids who will help run errands for you. Today it appears they were out getting rid of Duck Weed by pulling it up by hand and loading it into the canoes. Yuck, talk about look out for leaches!

We liked this sign on one of the bridges and this swan reminded us of our friends back home (Karen Strange) who likes to float on the river. Also saw some wind damage from the day before. Wind just missed us but tipped over a number of trees along the waterway.

By Lock 2 we had three boats going through the locks. Ron and Vickie were on Tropical Dreamers and Chris and I had met them at Ess-Kay Marina.

In Lock 3 we had a fourth and fifth boat join us – Desiderata (Lee and Cindy)! Chris and I had met them in Cape May, NJ. And Tuscobia (Rod and Julie) we had met them at Ess-Kay also.

At the last lock of the day we could see Lake Ontario. We stopped at Oswego Marina and chilled out for the evening.