Day 8 – July 28

Awoke to a drizzly morning but headed out of Fulton at 8:30am. Travelled the remaining 3 locks of the Oswego Canal then met up with the Erie Canal for the trip eastward. By this time the sun was back out, and we were about to head across Lake Oneida but not before a quick stop for Jim, Cathie and Anne to fuel up at Brewerton. Lake Oneida was as still as a mill pond which made for any easy voyage of the 21 miles of lake. We re-entered the canal again at Sylvan Beach were the Saturday festivities were just beginning. Here we met our first Canal Tug, The Urger. As the day wore on the rain returned and was quite threatening at times but luckily the thundershowers seemed to miss us. We are finding that the canal is really quite picturesque with little to show that the highways and trains run not far from the actual canal. The day ended at Lock 20 after 10 long hours of locking and travel covering about 65 miles, which made us all very weary boaters.