Oswego, NY

While in Brewerton, NY, over the weekend we attended the wedding of our friends Julie and Gary's daughter Katie. It was a very nice event and we got to see acquaintances and old neighbors from Rochester we had not seen in a while. The wedding was in Syracuse, NY, about 15 miles from where we were docked. While in the area and having a rental car, we both got a haircut and re-provisioned the boat with fresh food (yeh, lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber, and Lindt chocolate...counts as fresh stuff, doesn't it?).
We left Brewerton Sunday early at 10AM (after 2 evenings of wedding festivities,

this was quite a coup for us) as we had 7 more locks to go through before reaching Oswego. This portion of the trip is mostly on the Oswego River/Canal.

Many portions are quaint, rural, and cute.

We found a wall/dock run by the city of Oswego on a basin between the 2 last locks. This is where we are tied up for now. Vickey and Fran left us Sunday evening to go back to their reality: work on Monday morning!...

Our reality is Lake Ontario: it can get really stormy very fast (it is the 14th largest lake in the world). Monday did not look good for a crossing, and Tuesday forecast has changed and no longer looks good. Cold fronts are going through, and with these, strong gusts or squalls are frequent, and 4-5 ft chops. Not really pleasure boating, is it? As of 5PM Monday, it looks like Wednesday may be the day to get over the other side to Canada. So we are staying put here. The basin is well protected from the wind, and we see the Oswego River "rapids" rushing by next to us. the water is very clean and NO jelly fish here!

We are the only boat left at the dock, as the Oswego Harbor Fest was this past weekend and all the boaters are now gone: great for us.

A little downtime to clean the boat and fenders from all the locks crud (this can be rather nasty).
And the great thing is: we have a free dock and FREE internet connection. How about that, uh?
Next note should be from Canada (should being the operational word...)
So long, a bientot!
Annick & Michael aboard Sirocco.