Below can be seen a part of what is left of the rear portion of the drydock basin, as of October 2001. To the left is the edge of the culvert, where the creek flows under the canal bed. The view is looking east, with the canal bed behind the trees which would have flowed from left to right. The small rise in the center of the photograph is the east side of the canal bed, and to the right is the back end of the drydock. The water in the drydock basin could be drained out the back end and flow from right to left across the curved grassy depression seen below (then likely a stone drainage channel), into the waiting creek and culvert to the left, just as Becky explained in the memoir.

The picture below is a close-up view looking along the drydock basin from the back end toward the canal. It is nearly completely filled in and full of growth (including lots of poison ivy!), but the depression is clearly visible.

The photograph below is looking into the drydock basin from about midway betweeen the back end and the entrance to the canal. The basin floor is littered with very old glass bottles and ceramic, some may date from the early 1900s. It sort of looks like the drydock served as a trash dump in the years after the drydock closed down (after the mid-1890s) for Curtin Rickenbach and his family, who lived in the house just a couple hundred feet behind the back end of the drydock.

The view below is actually of the entrance of the drydock, taken from the west edge of the canal looking southeast. The drydock depression is on the right, while the broad canal bed is on the left. The entrance of the drydock, probably a gate that could be raised and lowered, is just beyond and to the right of the three people in the photo (Mimi and Erik Schmitt, and Melanie Evans).