Isn't that all geography is? ... at least if you do not look into what
those points are all about.
I agree that if you do not have the intellectual curiosity to delve
deeper into the area, it probably would be boring.
There probably are hundreds of videos about traveling the Erie Canal,
the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence Seaway. I've watched more than a
few. This one, on the locks, was pretty good:
That video does a good job of showing what it's like to enter lock 17
at Little Falls. You enter under a vertical lift gate that looks like
it is way too low, and it feels like entering a cave built into the
side of a hill. After you exit the lock you are running along a
channel on the side of the hill, looking down into the town below on
the north side. Interesting perspective from a boat where you rarely
look down at anything except water.
With just two of us managing the boat there is unfortunately no time
for photography.