If you go up to the Winooski area, check out the ferries. They’re not free like the ones down in the sixth boro, but
the view is . . . worth a million somethings, views of the banks as well as the lake bed.
The northern ferry runs 365/24. I crossed along with six other cars around 3 am, and if someone had arrived seconds after the chain shut, they’d have less than half an hour to wait the next. That’s 3 am on a Saturday morning.
Evans-Wadhams-Wolcott, a mouthful of founders’ names for a vessel, measures 196′ x 43′. Notice the log truck. EWW, built in Louisiana, has twin Cats, but the crew could tell me neither the horsepower nor prop diameter. See more historical shots here.
In the surrounding, if not on the lake, you see the unexpected wildlife.
The “sixth great lake” beckons.
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July 14, 2008 at 4:07 pm
Jed
If those are the whale tails on I-89, there is historical precedent. Once upon a time, LAKE CHAMPLAIN communicated with the ATLANTIC and was more of an inland sea. At that time BELUGA WHALES were known to frequent the area…
Fossilized remains of BELUGAS have been found down near Charlotte, Ferrisburg if memory serves.
Jed
July 15, 2008 at 1:34 am
suburbanlife
This ferry-boat looks much like the ones that cross from Langley to Maple Ridge, here where we live. During peak hours there is a boat on either side every quarter hour, after sunset, every half hour. The wait is far preferable to the extensive drive to cross the river two municipalities away. The new bridge that is being constructed a bit further down-river, slated to open in 2009 will put an end to this ferry service, which is unfortunate. G