Our Last Full Day at Letchworth!

Well, where does the time go when you are camping????  Can't believe we pack up tomorrow and head to our next location - Bristol NY which is just west of the most western finger lake! 

Today was a fun filled day with exciting new adventures!  After breakfast, we drove to the Mount Morris Dam which was constructed by the Army Corps of Engineers and completed around 1952.  It prevents floods to numerous towns and villages in this area and also the 3rd largest city in New York, Rochester.  What a wonderful and informative tour we had of the dam with a enthusiastic and phenomenal tour guide, Jules.  She had a great presentation along with a tremendous sense of humor.  We walked up to the top edge of the dam, took an elevator down 17 stories (170 feet) to the inside tunnels of the dam, and then down another 30 feet that actually was under the Genesse River.  Can't imagine all the work and knowledge needed to construct and maintain the daily functions of a dam.  This was a free tour that lasted about 1 1/4 hours and worth every minute.

View from the top of the dam.  Water is so low!

This shows the water on the other side of the dam that flows
towards Mount Morris and eventually to Rochester where
it empties into Lake Ontario!

We were on a balcony down 170 feet looking up to the top
of the dam!

Looking across the dam towards Letchworth State Park!

From the top of the dam looking down to the water!

This is a view of the dam from Letchworth State Park!
On the other side is the Mount Morris Dam Visitor Center
where we went to take the tour!

For those of you who remember, this chair reminds me of
Edith Ann from the old Laugh In TV Show!

Back to the CG by 2:15 after stopping for some photos.  Had a quick lunch and then decided to try finding some geocaches!  Ken had downloaded several in this area at home, so off we went.  We started out on our bikes and after riding 4 1/2 miles and making numerous stops to find the "treasure", we were unsuccessful.  We did get to the area where we knew the geocache was hidden, but just couldn't locate it!  Ken said he wasn't leaving this area until he found at least 1, so we got in Sam and Kathy's jeep and went searching.  Again, we found the approximate area for another one, but it was in the middle of a cornfield, and we decided we weren't sure about trespassing.  Headed on to look for a 3rd one and BINGO, we found it after going through some briers!  Oh well, that part of being successful!  We know where we have to park and then hike to find another one, but decided we will do that tomorrow morning before leaving for Bristol.  It was already 6:15, and we were getting hungry.

We know this was the location of the 1st geocache we looked
for, but we could not find it.  It was well hidden!  This was
a fireplace in an officers building from a workcamp of the
Army Corps of Engineers!

BINGO!  We found the geocache!  It was back a Dead End
Road and hidden behind a tree!  Now we can leave
Letchworth State Park - Ken found a geocache!!!

Ken started a campfire as soon as we returned and we enjoyed another delicious supper.  After clean-up we played more ladder golf with the men being victorious.  Decided it was time to have our 1st s'mores of the trip and they were so good. 

Earlier we had started to do some preparation for tomorrow's departure and before heading in for the night, Ken decided to put in our awning.  Unfortunately, our awning did not have the same plan.  One side disconnected from the mechanism when Ken started having it retract.  2 screws had fallen out and the left side of the awning was just hanging.  We are sure 1 of the screws must have fallen out at another time!  We put in new screws, but when we went to electrically retract it the pulley on the other side had bent from the weight of it hanging disconnected on the other side.  Now we had a major problem.  We could not get it to retract!  After doing some hammering to try to straighten the mechanism and both Ken and Sam pushing on it with all their might while I retracted it slowly, they finally got it totally retracted.  It took quite along time and much work on Sam and Ken's part.  We are so thankful that we will be able to leave tomorrow with an awning that is back where it belongs for travel.  No more awning for this trip!

After all that excitement we decided to call it a night at 10:15.