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…
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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 […]
Oops, we nick another prop – Fenelon Falls to Orillia
We woke Thursday morning to an overcast sky and a high likelihood of rain as we sat 100 plus miles east of a shallow low pressure center over Lake Erie and fronts to the north (stationary) and south (warm). These conditions suggested a high likel…
More Beautiful Scenery – Peterborough to Fenelon Falls
Peterborough proved to by a lovely moderate sized city of 80,000, which motivated us to stay an extra day. We also wanted to check out their health food store to see if they sold the raw seeds I need to make my protein shakes. Unfortunately…
Hiking in Killarney
“Boat-In-Theater” where they show a movie on the screen on the opposite shore and you tune to a FM Radio station for the sound on your boat. After an ice cream party last night, the last of our Grand Banks friends departed this morning, but there is still a lot of action here in Killarney. […]
Raw Water System
Thought it would be interesting to go back to some boat system details (Now I know some of you are yawning, but I like this stuff!). So here goes with a look at the raw water system. First a few … Continue reading →
Valleyfield to Montreal, QC
We had a reservation for a week in Montreal, so we planned our longest day 55 miles and 4 St Lawrence Seaway locks, an optimistic schedule. We booked a marina after 2 locks to be safe. We followed a freighter soon after we left the marina…
