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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
we've got locks on the canals here ; i like to be on the bank (or a bridge) and watch the boats go through them, but i there are so many, and so close together, i think if i were on the boat i would soon get really bored. don't you have locks in the us ? or do you just not live near a canal / river ?
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I have always lived along the coast. Not by any major rivers. I don't know if the rivers here have locks on them. Perhaps they do. Maybe someone that lives near some of them... like the Ohio or the Mississippi or the Colorado or whatever can tell me.
The only locks I knew about were the ones in the Panama Canal.
Wait, I think once I saw part of the Erie canal (I grew up in New England so New York wasn't far) and saw the locks and also the tow paths that the donkeys used to be on to tow the boats through. That was quite a long time ago though. (Now I don't remember if I actually saw them, or just saw one of them boring filmstip presentations in school).
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EDIT: I live near the Hillsborough River now but I don't think there are any locks on it.