8/16/15 Sunday

No church today.  We were concerned about leaving the boat unattended since we were the only boat on the dock.(marginal people were milling around...fishing, swimming near our boat). There was no power here, so it was a very warm night in the current heat wave. 

It was too foggy to leave early.  This was the first fog of the season.  Ron met a man and his wife bicycling in the park.  The man was from Bayonne, NJ, very near where Ron grew up.  When the retired, they moved to Rome.

Finally at 1020, we left the dock.  This was my least favorite stop on the canal.  Along the way, we saw people in long rowing boats.

 We were alone on the water most of the day.  We pulled in to Little Falls at 1600.  There is a very high wall here.

  It was so high that Ron had to lift Duke up each time he went ashore.  I exited across our top deck which was even with the wall.  All together, there were 6 boats tied up here overnight.


Power allowed us to hook up the AC and cool off.  The town was a distant walk, so we stayed onboard all evening. 

The 1918 barge terminal building has been turned in to the harbor master's office.  It was very nice with a lounge, showers, a selection of free books, and a person on premises from 8am to 9pm.  Contrast this with an identical building at our last stop in Rome which sits empty.  The town of Rome is losing out on tourists' business!