We have just spent two wonderful days at the Waterford, NY Visitors Center docks before beginning our trip through the Erie Canal. The first afternoon was spent washing and drying four loads of laundry and the second morning was spent buying and putting away lots of groceries, but we still had plenty of time to explore the area. Waterford claims to be the oldest continuously inhabited, incorporated village in the United States, or something like that.
This afternoon we walked over to Lock #2 to watch a boat lock through. This is the first of a series of 5 locks, known as the Waterford Flight, that we will be transiting in the morning. These 5 locks lift your boat more than 167 ft. in less than 2 miles and it takes about 2 hr to pass through all of them. If that doesn't totally exhaust us, then we will probably move further tomorrow and tackle some more locks.
We are still in awe of how beautiful the Hudson River was, but did not see as much wildlife as we expected. No bald eagles spotted, but we did see a few deer. Mark spotted this one swimming across the river in front of us.
Lighthouse are one of my passions and these are two of the many attractive ones that we saw coming up the Hudson - Esopus Meadows Lighthouse and Rondout Lighthouse.
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