Sun June 12: Minetto to Oswego

I played the ‘but Sunday is a day of rest card’ and got to sleep in a bit!  Then it was off the dock and through Lock O5 to visit the grumpy lock master. Even my cute radio banter failed to break through his curmudgeonly exterior...

Here Rick is demonstrating the 'line around the cable' method of holding the boat still in the lock.  Just review for those of you who need a refresher. Or who are going to travel with us soon (Mike and Linda!).

Here we are reviewing why we lock - because we don't want to go over this waterfall!!

Here we are reviewing the kindness of boaters - these good ol boys have lassoed a HUGE log and are going to drag it our of the lock so none of us get tangled up in it!

Here Rick is demonstrating the 'breaking the wild bronco' method of tying up the boat - that NO ONE uses EVER.  Because it's a 24,000 lb bronco.  (But the wind was giving me a hard time and I couldn't get the stern into docking position.)

And so we make it to Oswego! 

Rick has us on the free wall just above Lock O8, so we are protected from the vagaries of Lake Ontario.  It's a perfect location from which to explore - so we walk all over the East side of the town. We are STILL dragging from Covid, which makes us frustrated - but we walk anyway.

Random wall art.

Yet another fort - we have decided WTF stands for 'what the fort' is it now?!

Fort Ontario

Passing one of the marinas we were amazed by the deep sea fishing gear.  Rick is going to bore...I mean tell you a bit about that.  Rick here - the Great Lakes are very deep and much of the fishing for Lake Trout takes place at 600 ft or deeper.  The fishermen use electric fishing reels.  They let out line to catch fish and then use an electric motor to reel the line back up.  There were lots of charter boats with multiple deep reels.  Must be lots of good fishing here at some point in the year. 

Our friends Skip and Alison came over from their summer home in Sodus Bay to have dinner with us at Southern Fare. Great evening...