Blogs from Watkins Glen, New York, United States, North America

Geo: 42.3806, -76.8733Well into the Finger Lakes area of New York Stated now and heading off from Ithaca straight to Watkins Glen Gorge with our supplies of donuts and fruit.Was planning to walk to the Chequeta Falls at Montour Falls first, but you'll see from the photo has lacking in water that one was. Didn't bother with the walk.Onto into the Watkings Glen gorge and it was breathtaking from the start. It even beat the gorge at Robert E Treman State Park yesterday. Every step just looked better and better and the photos don't do any justice to the size. It was gorgeous and no one complained about the 785 steps upward.The town wasn't much but the people were helpful and we had our donuts and fruit down at the marina bay. Decided to visit the ... read more

Hi folks. Time to catch up a bit. It is 6pm Tuesday 8th. I’m writing up the last 2 days as a ‘Word’ document but don’t know when I’ll get internet access to cut and paste it into the Blog website and publish it, but I’ll write it up anyway and have it ready to go. Yesterday was Monday 7th and we woke up at Keuka Lake, rather later than usual…….again….. to a rather overcast and dull day. We heard a very heavy shower while we still lying in bed so we thought ‘what the heck’, not worth hurrying out of bed!!! We ended up having another lovely, much needed relaxing day by the lake doing exactly…….nothing!!!!except sit by the lake in some lovely comfortable lakeside chairs chatting to the lovely people who owned the house ... read more

Another glorious day at Watkins Glen, we go for a walk and get some supplies to go for a small hike up to the falls at Watkins Glen State Park , some of the homes we see along the way are magnificent, white weather boards with columns on the verandahs, with glorious planter pots with wonderful colours of white, yellow & lilacs! The beautiful oak trees are loosing there leaves and are on front lawns and footpaths, to feel these leaves crunching under our shoes reminds us of the Autumns in Melbourne when we were kids. We arrive at Watkins Glen State Park ready to catch the shuttle bus to take us up to the top so we can walk down to the bottom,but. "what's this, no shuttle bus today"! We have to walk up the ... read more