Crustacean Travels

 We left Scotia early as we are traveling over 30 miles with 8 locks today.  It is supposed to be rainy all day on Tuesday, so we are doing two short day trips in one day to compensate for the weather. Our day saw forested shore and hills beyond just beginning to be tinged with color, freight and Amtrak train whistles and rumbles, winding river and a series of small towns. The locks started just past Scotia- Lock 8 lifted us 14 feet; Lock 9 at Rotterdam lifted us 15 feet; Lock 10 lifted us 15 feet at Cranesville; Lock 11 lifted us 12 feet at Amsterdam; Lock 12 lifted us 11 feet at Tribes Hill; Lock 13 lifted us 8 feet at Randall;  Lock 14 lifted us 8 feet at Canajoharie( boiling water in Mohawk tongue) and Lock 15 lifted us 8 feet at Fort Plain.  That comes to a total rise of 91 feet today. And at each lock, we encountered : the green/red light to signal boats to enter the lock; the creaks and groans of the lock gates as they open and close; wrestling a line in the l...

 Woke to foggy conditions at Waterford and made ready to go through the Waterford Flight of 5 locks which will raise us 169 feet to the level of the Mohawk River.   We have company in the lock of a Canadian couple who purchased a boat in the US and was taking back to Canada. Was interesting to go through this set of locks again and get a second look at the town of Waterford and the remains of the old canal system along the way. We also had to wait for a guard gate to open for us so we got wet as we went under it.  Bill took a video of the gate opening. Traveled another few miles and pulled into Blaine’s Bay to use the remaining days we paid for earlier.   Will use this time to do laundry and clean the boat and Bill has a few fix-it chores to do before we store the boat for the winter.   Bill is cleaning the hull.  I get to clean the windows and hatches.  What fun!! Bill picked some wildflowers for us to have on the boat.   And an orange sunset and...