Thurs. June 5    0820/1730

48 miles        Waterford, NY to Amsterdam, NY

What a day!!! Today we started traveling through the Erie Canal. It started out just fine with a light wind and overcast sky. By 2:00 the wind picked up and it was getting a little harder to keep the boat under control in the locks. Most of the locks have a free wall you can tie up to at night but several of those walls were shut down due to construction. So after 9 hours and 11 locks we finally got to a place where we could tie up for the night.

Erie Canal

 

 

 

 Going into one of the locks.

 

 Several of the locks were so close you could see the next one while still in one. 

 

 

 

 

 Lock and Dam.

 

 One Dam from inside a lock.

 

 

 This is the remains of an original Erie canal aqueduct.