Sylvan Beach and a Farewell Gift from Joanne Haley

This blog will chronicle our (Pat and Patty Anderson's) 

cruising adventures on the Great Loop!

DAY 82 - June 21, 2017

Shortly before we cast off our lines at Lock E-20 this morning, George came down with yet another gift from Joanne Haley - a pie plate full of stuffed shells with homemade sausage and marinara sauce! I wish we had some way to directly thank Joanne! As we cruised by her house, she was on the porch waving goodbye, and we gave her a nice salute with Daydream's horn!

We had only two locks between between Lock E-20 and our next destination, Sylvan Beach. There is a nice long floating dock at Sylvan Beach, which had nobody on it when we arrived. Even though we got there fairly early in the day, this is a necessary stop, because it is where the Erie Canal crosses Lake Oneida, and Lake Oneida was just plain snarly - big surf crashing on the beach. One of the trawlers in the Looper group we have more or less been traveling with started out across Lake Oneida, decided it was too rough and turned back!

Loopers at What's the Scoop Ice Cream Shop

Sylvan Beach is a beach resort on Lake Oneida with an amusement park, rental cabins and a lot of restaurants.  We walked a short way uptown in the afternoon for ice cream! The ice cream shop was called "What's the Scoop," and it had just about everything an ice cream shop could have, but by us, nothing beats a cup (not a cone) of hard ice cream!

I walked Baxter back down toward the beach (they don't allow dogs ON the beach), and he did the meet and sniff with quite a few other dogs!

After sundowners on the cockpit, we wandered over to Lab Partners, and shared Joanne's stuffed shells with Beth and Rip. It was wonderful! I hope we did not overstay our welcome, but we had some pretty good conversation! Back to Daydream, a little glass of St. Augustine Winery's fine port, and off to dreamland!