{"id":151,"date":"2017-06-30T03:26:48","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T03:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/aroundthelake\/?p=151"},"modified":"2017-07-16T20:31:15","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T00:31:15","slug":"day-8-june-29-brockport-to-hamilton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/aroundthelake\/2017\/06\/30\/day-8-june-29-brockport-to-hamilton\/","title":{"rendered":"(Day 8 – June 29) Brockport to Hamilton"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The morning was mostly overcast with intermittent rain.<\/p>\n

The trip along the canal was like a trip through history. It is hard to imagine the enormous investment and vision that men had to build the canal in the 1800s. \u00a0\u200eNow, although it is well maintained, it is used only sparingly by cyclist and some boaters.<\/p>\n

Interestingly everyone I saw on the Erie Canal was relaxed and noticeably friendly. \u00a0 The stillness of the canal and the surrounding beauty seemed to have a positive effect.<\/p>\n

The route departed from the canal at Lockport and took a more less direct route to the Queenston Bridge to Canada.<\/p>\n

The view of the gorge from the Queenston Bridge was as always, gorgeous. I had thoughts of taking a picture in the middle but the traffic was distracting and there wasn’t any shoulder for my bicycle. Canada is wonderful and familiar.<\/p>\n

I did not like the route I took through St. Catharines. \u00a0 \u00a0The trail beside the Twelve Mile Creek was quite muddy from the recent rains and it was not well maintained. \u00a0In retrospect the trip through Niagara on the Lake and skirting the shores through Port Dalhousie would have been better.<\/p>\n

The Hamilton Beach trail is especially inviting after the long ride along roads sandwiched between the QEW and the lake shore.<\/p>\n

I am staying at Sim’s house again for the night.<\/p>\n

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Lift lock on the Erie Canal.<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Erie Canal.<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Erie Canal near Medina.<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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OakView of the Orchard Creak falls at Medina. This is the view looking down from the Erie Canal. <\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Medina.<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Oak Orchard River at Medina from the Erie Canal.<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Paddle boat at Medina.<\/div><\/div>
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Lockport.<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Lockport.<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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A lift bridge at the Welland Canal<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Twelve Mile Creek in St Catharines looking South.<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Lake Ontario west of St Catharines. <\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Walkway crossing the QEW south of Hamilton.<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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The morning was mostly overcast with intermittent rain. The trip along the canal was like a trip through history. It is hard to imagine the enormous investment and vision that men had to build the canal in the 1800s. \u00a0\u200eNow, although it is well maintained, it is used only sparingly by cyclist and some boaters. … Continue reading (Day 8 – June 29) Brockport to Hamilton<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/aroundthelake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/aroundthelake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/aroundthelake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/aroundthelake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/aroundthelake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/aroundthelake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270,"href":"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/aroundthelake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions\/270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/aroundthelake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/aroundthelake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/aroundthelake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}