{"id":1305,"date":"2013-07-08T21:18:08","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T21:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lapointes.ca\/blog\/?p=1305"},"modified":"2015-05-25T20:17:11","modified_gmt":"2015-05-25T20:17:11","slug":"finger-lakes-travel-2013-day-6-waterloo-ny-watkins-glen-ny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lapointes.ca\/blog\/finger-lakes-travel-2013-day-6-waterloo-ny-watkins-glen-ny\/","title":{"rendered":"Finger Lakes Travel 2013 \u2013 Day 6 \u2013  Waterloo, NY &#8211; Watkins Glen, NY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leaving the beautiful Oak Island with its simple style we head on down to Seneca Lake.\u00a0 It is a mere 1 hour travel time to get there.\u00a0\u00a0 It took about 30 minutes to get to the mouth of the lake and it opened up with huge treed cliffs on both sides.\u00a0 Stunning beauty.\u00a0 Many a vineyard, farm and cottage greeted us.\u00a0 After about 30 minutes on the water we were almost at Watkins Glen but decided to stop for lunch beside a beautiful waterfall named Hector Falls.\u00a0 Sometimes this falls is merely a rock face but today we were happy to see a full on waterfall cascading down several hundred feet.\u00a0 During lunch we watched the beauty of nature in full action and sound.\u00a0 After that we though a dip would be nice.\u00a0 A storm was brewing but it seemed far enough off that it would pass us.\u00a0 We watched the beauty of the stormy sky, swam and just enjoyed.\u00a0 Next thing you know the 3 of us started to clean the outside of the boat.\u00a0 The only way to do that is by sitting on a pool noodle, wash mitt in hand, and start rubbing.\u00a0 Once again Conductance was shiny and new looking.<\/p>\n<p>The storm was starting to rumble now so we headed to the marina to find a spot with a gorgeous view of the lake and hillside.\u00a0 Now I sit here at 9:30 with the odd mosquito looking for dinner and enjoy the sounds of ducks on a very calm night.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow we head to Watkins Gorge to view the sites.\u00a0 Aiden&#8217;s birthday is only 2 days away so we are also planning for that big day as well.\u00a0 I think he is more excited about the Gorge and his day though.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leaving the beautiful Oak Island with its simple style we head on down to Seneca Lake.\u00a0 It is a mere 1 hour travel time to get there.\u00a0\u00a0 It took about 30 minutes to get to the mouth of the lake and it opened up with huge treed cliffs on both sides.\u00a0 Stunning beauty.\u00a0 Many a <a href='http:\/\/www.lapointes.ca\/blog\/finger-lakes-travel-2013-day-6-waterloo-ny-watkins-glen-ny\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,23,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21","category-finger_lakes","category-sumex","category-21-id","category-23-id","category-17-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lapointes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lapointes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lapointes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lapointes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lapointes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1305"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.lapointes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1322,"href":"http:\/\/www.lapointes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions\/1322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lapointes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lapointes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lapointes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}