My Water Post For Today.
Canal Lock #7 is the hardest lock to see. I sort of knew it was somewhere in that area, but that was all.
After one of my trips to Syracuse, I made the detour to a parking lot near the lock and that is when my troubles began.
The lock has a body of water between it and the roadway, so it is not as easy to see as some of the others. On top of that, it has a closed bridge (the green structure in the first photo) that seems to want to warn people away from it.
As far as I could see, it was open to the public and I began to take a few photos.
Well, the lock keeper started coming over to me and so I took a detour away from that area of the lock. He then decided to go back to his lock house and I grabbed a few more photos, without him around.
This lock is the one that is right down the street from the Post Office, which you can see as the big square building on the left side of the river, just left of center, in the map photo. The Post Office is where I spent so much time mailing stuff to people. As a matter of fact, I took a photo of its waterfall, which you can see in THIS post, not knowing it was there...that is how hidden it is.
If you look at the Google Map of the area, you can see there are 3 places that the water goes to, a plant (I am sure it is another hydroelectric one), the center area with the waterfall and then all the way over on the right side, the lock and that little pond area.
It raises or lowers a total of 14.5 feet, so that is why the waterfall is a decent size.
The salmon fishing goes on there, too.
We are almost to the end. Lock 8 to go and we are in Lake Ontario.
I hope you enjoyed.
Truthfully, there is nothing about Water Posts I don't love in fact I do love the water fall, that I love the best.
ReplyDeleteI like the photo of the closed lock door. The water looks so nice. That was also the location where the Lock Keeper was getting upset with me, I think.
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