Day 5

 Today was a LONG day.  Up at 6am, breakfast, in line for the lock opening at 7am.  Erie Canal locks start in Waterford with 5 locks a s a flight that are done together.  We traveled 10 locks for a total of 34.5 miles, finishing at 4pm.  Nine hours total travel time, no stops.  Weather was great with no wind and 80 plus degrees.  We have been lucky so far; rain never came yesterday.

We traveled much of the day with the same boats, all doing some form of the loop.  We are the ""newbies" of the group since this was only day 5.  The others have been traveling for months, starting in Florida and Delaware.  We got to see more parts of the old canal system and pass under the "twin" bridges on Interstate 87 near Albany.

We passed some scullers rowing for charity.  They requested a "toot" from us and Jerry obliged.

We ended our day at Riverlink Park in Amsterdam NY.  Nice municipal park with beautiful docks, power, water, boater showers and a small restaurant.  Cost only $1 per foot, a real bargain.  Did you know that the Erie Canal is 340.7 miles long?  We will only travel on the Erie until we get to the Oswego canal.  

Not sure yet how far we'll go tomorrow.  Today was long and we are tired.........