Lock walls where we are docked at Sainte Anne de Bellevue, you can see that most people prefer the restaurant side, only a few of us on the park side.Some areas where the water is “skinny” or shallow on the way into Sainte Anne de Bellevue. The rocks h…
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Clayton, NY – 7/4/12
Today the four of us took the tour boat around the 1,000 Islands and stopped at Boldt Castle to see the changes since it has been restored. All of us had visited it years before the restoration had started and were amazed at the way it is today. …
Ottawa to Clayton, NY – 6/28/12 – 7/3/12
This posting covers our adventure from Chateau Montebello, QC thru Ottawa and on down the Rideau Canal to Kingston, ON and back to the USA at Clayton, NY. We traveled 5 days, 209 miles and 52 locks during this period and did not have access to Wi…
Cornwall, Ontario
We have decided to start blog entries again as we begin a trip around a small loop for us, from our marina on the St. Lawrence River, to Montreal, up the Ottawa River to Ottawa, down the Rideau canal, and back home to Crysler Park Marina. Our friends, …
Cornwall, Ontario
We have decided to start blog entries again as we begin a trip around a small loop for us, from our marina on the St. Lawrence River, to Montreal, up the Ottawa River to Ottawa, down the Rideau canal, and back home to Crysler Park Marina. Our friends, …
Chateau Montebello, QC – 6/27/12
We left St. Anne when the lock opened at 9 a.m. We had moved our boats from the wall to the wall painted blue which indicated we wanted to lock through. St. AnneBefore we left town Ricki walked around and took pictures since it had rained h…
Sainte Anne Bellevue, QC
Leaving Old Port Montreal We left Port d’Escale at 7:30 to go 3 miles downstream to another marina to get fuel and a pump out before starting back upstream for 39 miles to Sainte Anne. We were joined by Murial June as we passed the cut to Port…
Port d’Escale, Montreal, QC – 6/25/12
Slight change of plans today. Early this morning Marc came to the boat and told us Michelle was not feeling well and probably had a virus so we all decided to rest today and start off again tomorrow. Marc & I walked to a marine store la…
Port d’Escale, Montreal, QC – 6/24/12
Our Sunday started off as it should, up at 7 a.m. so we could make the short walk to the 9:30 services at Basilica Notre-Dame.Another neat areaWe walked by another pedestrian walkway that looked so peaceful with lots of seats and trees.Basilica Notre-D…
Port d’Escale, Montreal,QC – 6/23/12
Since we have spent the past 2 days on the canal without a WiFi connection, I had to type the blog into a word document and cut and past it into the blog. 6/21 & 6/22 have been posted individually before this one.Since we had 60 miles to go t…
