Monday – Day – 52 – 9/22/08

Today started out slow. I walked out of the boat and could see 50 feet at best into the fog! Within in an hour the fog was gone and we got underway under a very dark overcast sky. It was so cold and damp that I actually put on long pants for the first time since we left Chicago. As we entered Oneida Lake (below) the clouds moved to the east and the sky cleared ahead of us and the sky became blue. The lake was well marked with buoys to help in crossing. The lake is known to get rough and dangerous, but today she was flat and very pleasant. The day warmed up and turned out to be very pleasant as we rejoined the canal a few hours later. Today was a day to move east while enjoying the scenery. As we slowly moved down the canal, we’ve noticed that there is less water foul and other wild life around, maybe its our location? We have seen so much wild life in the past few weeks that a reduction in it, is very noticeable. The fall colors are now starting to show and we are beginning to see a little more color each day. We don’t want to move east to fast as we may miss the peak of New England’s fall colors!

Tomorrow, we will decide if were going to take a side trip down the Hudson to NY City. We both want to do it and know it would be fun, but I think were starting to run out of steam --- the cold weather isn’t helping either. It was 56 degrees in the boat this morning when we got up. Normally we turn on the heater but we were limited to one electrical circuit last night and the refrigerator took preference. Neither Barb nor I like cold and damp. It’s probably time to purchase some additional clothing! S--T!