M/V ILLUSIONS
CT TO TX CRUISE

Lunch on the new boat at Mystic, CT

City Island, NY had 7-foot tides

Manhattan from the East River

Lots of interesting things to see, East River
Ellis Island

The Statue of Liberty

Daniel and Angela

New York City looked beautiful

David and Angela

David, Daniel, and Chuck

The World Trade Center in the tall buildings

West Point Military Academy

One of the very nice lighthouses on the Hudson River

Federal Lock above Troy, NY

Chuck, going into one of the first of the Erie Canal locks

Note the next lock in this flight of 5 locks in 1.6 miles

The 5 locks lifted us 169 feet, twice the lift in the Panama Canal

A pretty bridge, but low

Lock 17, the highest lift lock on the Erie Canal

Old lock chamber made of hand-cut stone

M/V ILLUSIONS at ESS-KAY YARDS, Brewerton, NY

Boldt Castle on Heart Island

The lighthouse at Oswego, on Lake Ontario

Niagara Falls

Note the Maid of the Mist tour boat

Tower on the Canadian side of the Falls

See the ship in the middle lock of 3 in this flight at the Niagara
Escarpment

Typical lock of Locks 1-7 on the Welland Canal

Average lift in Locks 1-7 was over 45 feet

Cleveland, OH skyline

Sunset from the harbor at Cleveland, OH

Sunrise in Cleveland
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