Tonawanda, Erie Canal

We arrived at Tonawanda yesterday after cruising to the Niagara River, the west-most point of New York Erie Canal of our 2008 cruise. We left our home dock at Ortona, Florida on March 22, 2008, and now 4 months later and 2,500 miles under our keel, we will turn around and head home over the same route; Erie Canal, Finger Lakes, Oswego Canal, Hudson River, New York Harbor, off-shore of New Jersey Coast into Cape May, Delware Bay to C&D Canal to Chesapeake Bay, Norfolk and east coast ICW to Stuart, Florida by November 2008. Hopefully Lake Okeechobee will have enough water for us to cross to get home.

So we thought this will be a good starting point to share our trip.



Bounty from the Farmer's Market

Tonawanda waterfront

Tonawanda is one of the few towns on the western Erie Canal that charged a fee for docking at their town dock. It's a good size town with good public transportation. We walked to the Farmer's Market and took buses to see the Niagara Falls. We walked across the Rainbow Bridge to Canada, spent two hours and crossed back to the US. We noticed that things in Canada are more expensive yet prosperous compared to the US side. So we waited to have a late lunch on the US side of Niagara Falls.

Rainbow bridge to Canada & The Niagara Falls