Our overnight stop in Palmyra, NY, was to visit another of Don's cousins that he'd not seen in 45 years. Photos of that reunion will be tomorrows subject .
After calling and making plans to meet for dinner, his cousin Robin suggested we drive down to Canandaigua, NY, until time to meet. We were so happy that she did! Lake Canandaigua is beautiful! We drove out and parked on City Pier, which extends out into the lake for quite some distance, walked around, taking in the views/sights and just plain enjoyed ourselves. ;)
Here is Don at the end of City Pier. The small island behind him in the photo is Squaw Island, which has some important history. The next photo will explain that for me........
The Squaw Island informational plaque. (double click to enlarge)
Another historical interest on Lake Canandaigua are the "boathouses"......one section of them shown here behind Don.
How convenient and nice of the city to erect these informational plaques for we "tourists", eh? (once again, double click to enlarge)
Each one is so different and had it's own personality. Unfortunately, the owners of most of them were very private and had all the windows covered inside so nosey "tourists" were not able to see inside. But......we were able to see into one as we "strolled" slowly past.......the owners were there and had the door open. ;) Theirs was very cool inside....much like a family room, decorated with a nautical theme.
The boathouses created/formed 2 pedestrian "streets". The previous one and this one.
This is the bay between those 2 streets, which shows the reason they are called boathouses. Individual boats are moored inside of the structures behind large doors, just as we do for our cars in a garage.
A very cool part of Canandaigua, New York, wouldn't you agree?
Sadly (or happily?), tomorrow's post will be the last one involving our vacation of 2010.
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