Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/07/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Jul 10, 2007, at 6:06 PM, Bill wrote: > I would love to see what the interior of one of those boats looks > like. > > Bill in Denver > > -----Original Message----- > From: lug-bounces+bill=photobynelsch.com@leica-users.org > [mailto:lug-bounces+bill=photobynelsch.com@leica-users.org] On > Behalf Of > geebee > Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 12:29 AM > To: Leica Users Group > Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG : #207 & #208 > > From: "G Hopkinson" <hoppyman@bigpond.net.au> > > Subject: RE: [Leica] IMG : #207 & #208 > > >> Graham and Jerry, that is truly amazing. Jerry, you are saying that >> the bridge is an aqueduct, part of the canal system, actually passing >> over the natural water course? > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------ > -------------------------------------- > > View from the top: > > http://www.geebeephoto.com/2005/05260.htm > > http://www.geebeephoto.com/2005/05261.htm > > http://www.geebeephoto.com/temp/posts/Cosgrove_01.html > > http://www.geebeephoto.com/temp/posts/Cosgrove_col.html > > --Graham I've heard it described as cruising in a moving hallway. The British canal boats are a bit more than six feet wide. If you stand in the middle of the boat and stretch out your arms, you can touch both sides. In our Erie canal, boats are a foot or two wider, say about eight feet. Incidentally the Erie Canal was responsible for developing New York City as a major port. The canal, stretching from the Buffalo area runs the length of New York State to the Hudson River. When completed in 1826 it permitted a direct water route from the Midwest to NYC. Passengers and agricultural produce could make the trip to New York in a bit more than a week. Overland the trip took twice as long and, for bulk cargos, was ten times more expensive. The current canal, now known as the New York Barge Canal, is a monumental piece of engineering, rivaling the Panama Canal. It has 52 locks, some with 40 foot lifts, and climbs over the small mountains in the middle of the state. Since the advent of rail, barge traffic has dropped off and the canal is being transformed into a 350 mile long recreational park. To put a photographic perspective on all this meandering, the Erie Canal passes through miles of some of the prettiest and most bucolic landscape in the USA. Side canals head to the Fingerlakes. glacially carved crystal clear lakes 40 miles long and 4 miles wide with one of the best wine grape growing areas in the US nestled between. If you like GeeBee's photos of the English countryside, you will find it all here (except for the churches). Larry Z