We are very proud to have crossed two major milestones today. First, on a boat travel is measured in hours not miles. This is calculated by the length of time the engine has run. Today we passed the 1000 hours marker of the number of hours that we h…
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Hastings to Peterborough
After sleeping for almost twelve hours, we were up and ready to tackle another hot day. Fortunately, today we only have one lock and when we reach Peterborough we are going to rest for at least one extra day. Again today we follow Summer Star’s lead….
Campbellford to Hastings
It rained for a very short time just as we were getting up and while it was overcast, the weather report indicated that the most of the serious rain had passed. So while Captain Mark took advantage of the reasonable fuel prices in Campbellford, I ran …
Campbellford Ontario
Dottie and I let Captain Mark sleep in a little bit this morning to recover from our physically stressful day yesterday. Later in the day while I worked on the blog, Mark and Dottie set out to explore the town. Located approximately midway between Toro…
Trenton to Campbellford
The locks on the Trent-Severn Waterway open for the first lock through at 8:30a, so we were up early and on our way. On this first day we will pass through twelve locks with the last two locks being a double flight. In addition to the twelve locks…
The Trent–Severn Waterway
The Trent–Severn Waterway was formerly used for commercial purposes but now is exclusively for pleasure boats, connecting Lake Ontario at Trenton to the Georgian Bay portion of Lake Huron at Port Severn. Begun in the 1850’s, ironically by the time…
Trenton Ontario
It stopped raining early Saturday morning but the heat and humidity just continue to make it extremely uncomfortable…I don’t think that we could leave Picton fast enough…if it was possible to leave skid marks on the water – we would have done s…
Picton Ontario
Upon arriving in Picton Marnia I was in for the rudest docking awakening yet …as I hopped off the boat to secure the lines (as there was no deck hand to meet us, which was okay) I nearly fell off the pier. The docks which are floating docks are so w…
Kingston to Picton
It continues to be just brutally hot so we left Confederation Basin in Kingston rather early in an attempt to catch cool sea breezes on Lake Ontario. As we headed west we travelled along the channel north of Prince Edward County which is a large island…
Martello Towers and Fort Henry
As we approached Kingston and our slip at Confederation Basin we could not help but notice several large round block structures with a hint of painted wood near the top and pointy roofs. At first they looked like the round red barns of Indiana but upo…
