Dot's Way Cruising Cat: St, Josephsville to past Lock 20 at Whitesboro, New York

We had a quiet evening and went ashore in the morning to walk the canal path with our coffee cups until we found a sunny bench. We saw rabbits and a huge deer on our 2 mile hike. We decided to stop for breakfast at the free dock in Little Falls so got underway. We ended up following Halcyon through Lock 17 where the gate is overhead and you get wet and instead of changing his bumpers for a required port side tie he backed in. We then had a fast motor yacht Aurora race to join us. We continued on to Little Falls Canal Harbour where Halcyon tied up ahead of us and helped us with our lines. They then pulled away and we walked to Anne Street restaurant for a wonderful breakfast on Canal Place with other shops. We walked through the train tracks tunnel to Main Street and went grocery shopping. We walked the canal path back towards Lock 17 to Moss Island but the trail was closed. We met some bicyclists headed to NYC. We continued on through 3 more locks headed to a free dock at a park that turned out to be unusable so we pulled onto the wall behind Vector. Another boat coming the other direction was too late to get through the lock before 6 pm is docked between us, We took a walk down the canal path spotting two muskrats and several rabbits along with some fisherman. Our neighbors took an Uber into Utica five miles back for dinner and we cooked some outstanding fajitas along with fresh steamed corn on the cob. We will get an early start to Sylvan Beach tomorrow.