Western New York

WESTERN NEW YORK

The route so far.

Our Allegany Mountains home base.

Weekend activities-old cars, old songs, and of course,

LOTS of old people!

Lake fun as well as mountains.

Our site.

The large Allegany State Park 

took us a long day to fully enjoy.

The standard pose.

At the lodge in the Red House area.

"Climbing" on Thunder Rocks.

Our Niagara area base, Niagara Lazy Lakes.

  The water current under this bridge is about 28 miles per hour.

The water depth is about 175 feet and in

one minute approximately six billion (6,000,000,000)

        pounds of water cross under the Rainbow Bridge.

From the Observation Tower in Niagara State Park

you can view the American Falls

and the Canadian Falls.

We stayed way past our bedtime.

It is a lot safer using a barrel to go over the Canadian Falls.

After that ride we enjoyed the views

and lunch at the Skylon Tower.

The Erie Canal links back east with the expanding west.

In Lockport a series of 5 locks were built and

were an engineering triumph for the day.

 

The "flight of five" locks on the Erie Canal in Lockport.

These five lock raised/lowered boat 60 feet. 

10 boats, 5 up and 5 down could be handled at the same time.

Very impressive for 1825.

Of course, the pose.

 

Olcott a small fishing village on Lake Ontario.

A relaxing place.

Fort Niagara State Park in Youngstown.

This light house was open,

so of course we climbed to the top.

The French Castle was built to look like a French Chateau

was built in 1727 but the fort dates back to 1679.

Interesting reading.

The Queen and I in the French Castle.

We stayed for a British cannon firing demonstration.

On Lake Ontario there was an ongoing sailing class

and this artillery master said that today's

target would be one of the sail boats, then fired.

Got one!  They were capsizing all afternoon in

order to practice up-righting their craft.

Still, the timing was fun.

We always try to visit presidential sites. 

This one in the Millard Fillmore's home in East Aurora.

Millard Fillmore's tomb in Forest Lawn, Buffalo.

The Anchor Bar was a short trip from Forest Lawn.

The history was worth every penny,

but the wings would only garner 2 or 3 stars.

We enjoyed them anyway!

See.

A picnic stop in the Catskill Mountains

on our way to Massachusetts.