The short 16 mile trip to the small town of Medina was a very peaceful drive through mostly farmlands with a couple of small towns inbetween. Corn, soybeans and orchards lined the canal on this stretch. I'm still in wonder at the difference in traveling the canal rather than the lake!
We found a train museum here with a huge HO model train. Truly amazing that anyone would spend the amount of time it must have taken to put it all together. Of course it was pouring down rain when we came out so off in the rain we rode! It was only about 5 minutes back to the boat and we didn't melt so all was well :-)
As always we were able to find the local breakfast place and then did some riding around town. We heard a waterfall yesterday and found today that it is the large creek just to the east of us that passes UNDER the canal. Because the creek ran in a gorge about 70 feet deep, the canal we are currently sitting in is actually a very large concrete dam that is 50 feet wide and takes the Erie Canal over this creek - thus creating the waterfall we were hearing. Quite the engineering feat.We'll spend the night here (Sunday) - it's very quiet and peaceful. Steve wants to get the teak railings around the flybridge done (sanded, cleaned and finished). This is a multi-day process but the weather looks like it going to be cool enough to complete at least part of the job.
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