July 24, 2015 Day 34 New
York Summer 2015
Free
City Dock, north of Lock 7Oswego, NY
Day
five in Oswego began with saying goodbye to Colin and Dawn on Movin’ On. We helped them cast off their
lines and then walked down to Lock 8 and talked to them while they were locking
down. This is the last lock on the
Oswego Canal and when you depart, you are on your way into Lake Ontario. They are now traveling through Canada with
Sue and Ted on My Dream – new friends
we all met while we were all docked here in Oswego. We wish them the best of journeys!
A final wave from Dawn and Colin |
The
rest of our day has been a quiet one.
Instead of wandering around the various venues of Harborfest, Bill
confined Joyce to the boat today to let her hip rest. All this walking has been increasingly painful
the past few days. We did walk down the
dock to visit Debbie and Henry on Seven
Tenths late this afternoon. Other
than that, Joyce read and Bill did the chart plotting.
We
did have unexpected visitors this afternoon.
Friends, Sarah and Brooks who are former Loopers have a cousin who lives
here. When Sarah learned we were here, she called her cousin and he and his
wife stopped over to say hello! A small
world!
We
are preparing to leave in the morning. We will go through the last lock and
then stop at a marina for water and empty the holding tank. Then we will enter Lake Ontario and travel about
50 miles to Cape Vincent. We hope to
find a space on their free dock or we will anchor.
We
will spend the next week touring the Thousand Islands, visiting the Antique
Boat Museum, Boldt Castle, Singer Castle and the towns of Clayton and Alexandria
Bay. We will be very close to Canada and
will not be posting the blog unless we have access to wifi. We do not want to
pick up roaming charges from nearby Canadian towers. So, if it is a few days before we can post,
that is the reason. We are looking
forward to seeing the beautiful Thousand Islands!