Interesting stuff at the Peterborough Canoe Museum

Typical of the beautiful public plantings we have seen throughout the system. These are in Peterborouch

Sites Along the TSW #3

Aboathouse on one of the small lakes

This is turning out to be a lock full.

And now they are adding one more! This is the first time the folks in the runabout have ever locked through and the kids are a little frightened. Larry & our friend Dan just kept talking to keep them calm.

This is the lockmaster with the great personality who shoe horned us all in there.

Sights along the TSW #2

I wish I was able to figure out how to get all of the photos in one post but I haven't managed to do that yet so you are going to notice a lot of posts on the same day.


Here the lockmaster is using the hand crank to open the gates. His helper is on the other side of the lock doing the same thing for the other gate.
The "toonie" sculpture in Campbellford.
Have I mentioned how much fun boating is?
Here you can see the water level above the lock and the boat is being raised to that level. Just ahead is a blue bridge that the lockmaster will open as soon as he opens
the gates.

Sights along the TSW #1

Here we are standing on top of the gates at Lock #1 in Trenton

Two different overviews of the Trent Severn Waterway, hope they are legible. The big patch of blue on the left in the images is Lake Simcoe.

The "blue line". This is at Fenelon Falls lock and you can also see the beautiful gardens that are always around locks, although I admit this one is more elaborate than most.

Welcome to our Blog

I can't believe I'm hip enough to have a blog! Not only that but I find it strange writing in real time. When I have sent our travel updates I am writing with the advantage of perspective so I try to keep notes and comb through my daily logs for the most interesting things to share with you. Writing in real time I either don’t consider stuff important enough or I don’t want to commit the minutia to a published form, so bear with me while I hit a happy medium. Because some people that I have talked with have said they like the regular update format I've been using I have decided to try blogging by making a photo story that will supplement the updates. In order to be consistent as I add new photos I have put the most recent pictures at the top of the blog page even though they are all dated the same. Be patient with me as this new skill evolves, or doesn't.

THE TRENT-SEVERN WATERWAY

Trenton, Ontario is the southern terminus of the Trent-Severn Waterway which connects Eastern Lake Ontario with Georgian Bay on Northern Lake Huron. In the TSW there are There are 44 locks, or to be technical 43 locks and the marine railway. We transited only 43 of the 44 as one of them is not on the “loop” route. The first 34 locks took us from an elevation of 244’ at Trenton up to an elevation of 840’ at Balsam Lake, which is the highest elevation of the trip. The remaining 9 locks dropped us back down to an Elev of 577’ at Georgian Bay, Lake Huron.

Trenton, Ontario

A while back someone asked me what I did for intellectual stimulation. Listen, I just learned how to post to this blog and that is more than enough stimulation (or perhaps the word is frustration) for me. Now I need to work on adding photos but that is a whole other brain exercise that I may not be up for today as time is limited and I am never fast at figuring this stuff out. Time is limited because we only have today to get the grocery shopping done, ride the bikes to the lock and get our lock pass, manage all the e-mail, go to the Post Office and mail something to Lauren and get ready for the parade this evening. I know it doesn't sound like such a busy day to those of you with cars in the garage but it takes a long time to accomplish all of this when you are walking or biking everywhere and shopping in strange stores.

Speaking of the Post Office, I know I always complain when the price of stamps goes up but here in Canada a stamp costs $ .96 so I will try not to complain the next time I buy stamps at home.
Of course here the clerk chatted with us and was actually helpful too, had to check the door on the way out and see if it was actually a Post Office.

Wednesday we start the locks in the Trent-Severn, for now we are enjoying chatting with the local boaters and picking their brains.