Cayuga Lake

Posted by Nat

May 27, 2006

In case you’re not familiar with the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York, there are a few long vertical (north-south) lakes a bit south of Lake Ontario that look roughly like fingers. The two biggest lakes are Seneca and Cayuga, with Cayuga being to the east. At the southern tip of Cayuga is the town of Ithaca, which is the home of Cornell University and Ithaca College. A number of my family members have attended Cornell… the latest person being my sister, who is graduating this weekend.

Around the time I was born, my family bought a lake house about 15 miles up the east side of the lake. As it doesn’t get used very often these days, I think it’s going to be sold. Anyway, my sister asked a bunch of her friends to come out on Thursday night to a BBQ at the lake house. As I enjoy going to the lake house and I didn’t have much else to do in Ithaca, I decided to go up there with them.

I grabbed a bunch of pictures:

Standing on one of our docks looking south, my sister on the left, her friend on the right

Standing on the porch of the house looking down at the lake, a few people getting the grill ready

We have fire….

This is looking north on the Conrail rail line. There is a rail line that separates lake houses from the beach along the east side of the lake. The line feeds the Milliken power plant, which is located about halfway up the east side of the lake.