We're at Rome, NY today. The dock is just a wide spot in the Erie Canal with a nice, straight dock to tie up. It's a free public dock, but there's no electric or water available, so we'll run the generator some and we have lots of water in our tanks. There are lots of stores, an old fort and a good restaurant in walking distance, but it's 95 degrees out today, so we'll probably just stay inside in the air conditioning at least until dinner. The good restaurant provides free rides if you call them, so that's where we'll go for dinner.
The dug canal sections are mostly straight canals dug through the flat lands, so they're uninteresting. This section of canal is at the highest point of the Erie Canal, so for the last 3 days we were going up through locks and tomorrow we'll start going down in the locks.
We passed few boats on the canal today, maybe about a dozen total including some NY canal maintenance boats, other cruisers and this Erie Canal Tour Boat. It was about the size of Nonchalance, but it had 30 people on it.
Yesterday, we stayed in Ilion, NY at a "marina" (another wide spot in the Erie Canal, but with a few flag poles, electric and water hookups and $53 to stay overnight instead of free).
We had been passing bass fishing boats all day yesterday, but we just thought it was Sunday and the locals were out fishing. But when we pulled in to Ilion, there was a bass fishing tournament and they were just coming back in for the weigh-in. There were probably about 12 bass boats with 2 fishermen each. Everyody had a plastic sack full of water and live Smallmouth bass. The biggest one was about 2 1/2 lbs., about the size of the one Jim caught the same day in the St. Lawrence Seaway.
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