This is the lighthouse at the mouth of Oswego Harbor on Lake Ontario that we will motor past when we venture out into the Lake tomorrow or Saturday. We have one more lock in front of us and then nothing between us and Lake Ontario. It's been a week since we entered the Erie Canal and I must say, that locks no longer strike fear in my heart. After 23 Erie Canal locks and 6 Oswego Canal locks, it has become somewhat routine. That's probably a good thing, because we have over 70 locks left before we find ourselves back in Florida.
Just when we've gotten comfortable with the rivers and canals of NY (what I call "little water"), now we have to tackle "big water" again and start to be concerned with wind and waves once more. One of the big unknowns is whether or not we will be able to access wi-fi often. We are turning off our data plan while we are in Canada because doing otherwise would be too costly. What that means is that blog posts may be few and far between in the weeks ahead. We plan to spend a few days on the eastern end of Lake Ontario in and around the region known as "the Thousand Islands" before heading up the Trent-Severn Canal.
We spent today picking up mail that had been forwarded to the post office here in Oswego and then exploring the highlights of the city. We discovered an old railroad tunnel that has been incorporated into a pedestrian walkway and spent some time exploring Fort Ontario.
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Oswego, NY
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On the shore of Lake Ontario
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Mark at Fort Ontario
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