Canajoharie - FlavourTown

Got up and had pancakes for breakfast, with strawberries. At 10:00am Ron and I walked to the Arkel Museum where there is an Art Gallery as well as the library. Wonderful place with wonderful paintings including some by Winslow Homer. Some of his watercolors are just stunning.

Canajoharie is the home of Beech Nut Packaging. The museum tells the complete story - the old factory downtown is vacant as is most of the downtown core which is sad. Beech Nut made everything from Gum to Peanut Butter, now they make Baby Food.

After the Museum visit we decided to head downstream to Amsterdam and Riverlink Park to get a pump out do laundry.

This stretch of the canal was devestated by Irene last year and signs of the damage were everywhere though they have done an amazing job of repair. The corner section of the building above was all but washed away so you can see how high the water was.
Just before Lock 11 we saw a Bald eagle you can understand why its the bird of the USA.



This is Kevins boat, he pulled into Riverlink just after we did. He's heading north - aint that the cutest little boat you ever did see. There are two bunk beds at the rear of the wheel house and he cooks out the back on a Coleman stove.

Did the pump out thing, Mary and Ron were gone for hours doing the laundry and I updated the blog. Our freinds Bob and Roger eventually arrived so we sat up late having cocktails so I missed the sunset again but this is us docked for the night at Riverlink Park in Amsterdam.

Position 42 56.0272N 74 11.474W