Tale of 2 or 3 Canal Tugs 2
Many thanks to Josh Watts for sending along these photos taken in western Monroe County, at Adams Basin. You may recall that Adams Basin has appeared here before in the westbound end of the virtual Erie Canal tour. Sure enough there was an Adams involved . . . way back at the time the first […]
Labor Days Past
Yesterday, Labor Day, I took no photos, except one of a wood sign carving project in progress. It turns out . . . Labor Day 2020 I took no photos either; these were sent to me though by Josh Watts, and embarrassingly, I’ve not posted them until now. Sometimes I get into a groove and […]
Bikester 2 Albion to Newark
Thanks to all who read installment 1. Earlier 2020 I posted about a water tour from west to east that included toddy’s portion of the canal here. Besides a difference in perspective, bike v. boat, the activity of the photographer is very different. On a boat, your hands are free to grab the camera whenever […]
Virtual Erie Canal 3W: Rochester Stretch
Many activities across the state are being cancelled, but our virtual tour boat has been authorized by the USCG and the United Federation of Planets to carry an infinite number of passengers, so long as we have an infinite number of virtual PFDs and our transporter room has virtual certification. And your captains . . […]
Port of Huron, OH
I’d planned a gallivant along the coast of Lake Erie to see ice, maybe even walk and fish on it, as I did many decades ago. February would normally be a good time for that, but my actual schedule depended on someone else, my son. Well . . . I was told that a week […]
JoAnne Reinauer III
I’m most interested in the surface painted black, but that neck goes upward forever . . . or at least high enough to almost scrape the underside of the Bayonne Bridge. Well . . . okay, I exaggerate a quite a bit. See Bronze 3 for the upper wheelhouse, but when JoAnne came off the […]
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