Lake Ontario Transit
We had crew change at Oswego over the weekend. Brian got off and returned home to South Carolina and my brother, Bill, joined on Monday. Bill intends to ride all the way to Severn at the western termination of the Trent-Severn Waterway which should take around 7-10 days depending on how much ground we can cover transiting all of the 46 locks that lie ahead. It turns out that they charge $5.50 Canadian dollars to transit the Brighton Swing Bridge. Yikes! We had no Canadian cash at all so the guy took $5.00 US and called it even. We were happy for the consideration and the bridge operator made a little on the side given the exchange rate.
We had to stop in the Murray Canal just past the bridge because the bridge up ahead would have been closed by the time we got there. It was for the best because we had done 75 miles from Oswego across Lake Ontario and were plenty tired. We will get underway at 8:30 in the morning in order to get to the next bridge upon their opening at 9 AM. Our plan is to cover as much ground as possible so Bill can get back home and I can press forward to get home sometime at the end of July for my next set of doctor appointments.
Fireworks over Oswego on Sunday night.
The lighthouse at the entrance top Oswego harbor
The fly swatter has gotten a serious workout and requires a duct tape repair before continuing to be an effective instrument of death to the pesky critters
A Canadian navigation aid with a large osprey nest on top
Schuyler docked for the night along the Murray Canal just past the Brighton Road Swing Bridge with a nice sunset in the background.