We had a long day; we went through 10 locks and lowered another 92’. Most of the scenery today was farmland…nice but nowhere near as pretty as the first half of the Rideau Canal. We are docked at the bottom of the Long Island Locks. We docked…
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July 30 – Merrickville
Meeting New PeopleThe PondWe went through eight locks today two on the Tay Canal and six on the Rideau, we dropped 99’. The scenery today became more like what we saw along the east coast through the Carolinas, more marshland with trees in the …
Blind River Marina, Blind River, ON – 8/1/12
As planned, we left Little Current at 8 a.m. and followed Joe and Edie on Seaquel to the Benjamin Islands a run of about 15 miles. We decided to poke our noses into the islands so we could say we have seen them.Seaquel The water was very smo…
Itchenor
Sunset at Itchenor, taken by Mike after a visit to the pub.Arriving at Itchenor provided us with an opportunity to practice picking up a mooring a few times.The first mooring I was sure the space we had was going to be a bit tight for us and other vess…
Year 2 Day 127
Today is Wednesday, August lst and we're in Blind River, Ontario. We left Killarney on Monday and cruised to Little Current where we enjoyed dinner on board with our friends, Carl and Ricky on their boat Quest. We left Tuesday morning and the c…
We finish the Trent Severn – Orillia to Port Severn
The 44 mile run from Orillia to Port Severn includes the final four locks, one of which is the Big Chute, the most unique lock in North Ameria.Big Chute cradle carrying boats east bound to Lake CouchichingThe Big Chute is a marine railway that transpor…
We moved to St. Mary's
Al made the trek to St. Mary’s early Tuesday morning. Yesterday was a settling in day and meeting his physician and some of his “team”. Today he had some Speech and Physio. Starting tomorrow his boot camp will start with Speech/communication a…
Just some photos of Bodrum
Merhaba,
So here are just some photos; no research needed so it was quick and painless.
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More Bodrum Photos
From our room window: Women sitting, tatting, knitting and talking….enjoying the evening .
A cock-eyed photo from our window this m…
Jerusalem Stories
Merhaba,
Randal and I were up and out of our pension room by 7:30 am. We left our key with one of the managers as they want to move us to a smaller room. That’s fine, we don’t need 4 beds. We motorbiked the pi…
Intimate Creek Moments
My definition of a great place to be: In the woods, no more than 15 minutes off a regular highway, parked beside a lovely little mountain stream with somewhat reasonable access down to the water, no one else around. I now know why one Rocky […]
