Friday, June 22, Day 49: After sleeping 10 hours we rolled out of bed at 8:30 to discover we were the only boat on the dock! We desperately needed the rest. Rickshaw pulled away from the dock a little before 10am. We did four more locks today - the first two raised us up but the last two locks dropped us down. This was the first time we locked down. Locking down seems somewhat easier - the currents don't seem as strong with the water draining out of the lock and the process seems to go faster when the lock is draining. We docked for the evening at a free city dock at Sylvan Beach which is at the eastern end of the local recreation lake, Oneida Lake. We were greeted by two Loopers (from different boats) who caught our lines and then later we met two more Looper boats. One was Bill and Laura on Kindred Sprits whom we had talked with on the VHF when we were headed to Atlantic City. Sylvan Beach was a very cute little tourist town, with a retro 1950’s feel, complete with hamburger shacks, ice cream parlors, and a small amusement park on the waterfront. This part of New York can have a very severe winter, worse than Buffalo, due to the lake effect of Lake Ontario, so the locals really try to get out on the water and enjoy the brief summer weather while they can.
Heading west on the Erie Canal. Not what I had expected - it's very overgrown and uninhabited for miles.
We came around a bend and saw this restaurant with dock.
Another unusual boat. The fenders are unbraided lines. They look like big mop heads.
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