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photo…Arrived in Frying Pan Bay safe and sound….we have a couple of neighbor boats…but we are here to explore and rest up…cloudy and rainy…good for napping…I’ve been trying to catch up on blogging but the connection is obviously not strong …

photo…Spent the afternoon touring Discovery Harbour, a reconstruction of a 19th Century British naval base complete with sailors and soldiers dressed in period. Historic buildings , boardwalk, and boats were the highlight of that experience. We retur…

photo…Lock 43 claims to be the biggest on the Trent-Severn…but Lock 44 is truly the most amazing. We spent the evening hours walking all around and analyzing the contraption. We saw a boat arrive at the bottom end and relaxed thinking that we could…

photo…Tuesday morning the UPS delivered Floyd’s chart disc right on schedule so we said good-bye to Graham and Debbie and headed out to stay at Lock 43….but when we arrived and noticed all the goose poop…we kept right on going…spending the nigh…

photo…Sunday afternoon as we were working on the aft deck, a parade of 7 of these little cars came a round the bend…what a great sight!! Folks have fun with their toys. We also noticed that we had become the talk of the town as every time the ISLAN…

Sherry insisted on taking me to a really special produce market and grocery store on Monday…we said good bye to SEGUE…Margaret and Jim from TAHOMA came over for a cook out…we found that we were in Carver heaven…but most important IFIXED THE CHA…

Port of Orilla was a big and weekend busy marina. Close to restaurants, bars, grocery and a fabulous bakery. We were ready to stay put for a while…and they offered a bargain “pay for two, get one free” plan. So we settled in for the weekend….and it…

Spent the night at Lock 39 with SEGUE…we could see locks 40 and 41 from where we were…finally a chance to meet and talk with Richard and Angela…and their dog, Stella. It was a very rural area…another uneventful evening…rain in the night made …

We had thought that we’d stay along the wall at Lock 36 for the night…but the day was young and SEGUE was headed on…so we did too. Locking through a couple more proved to be interesting. Couldn’t help but notice the new wood on this lock door. Lock…

OOPPPS, Lock 36 at Kirkfield was before the bridge and narrow channel…so exciting that I almost forgot to tell you about it!!!! This is the down trip on a similar locking process as Peterborough. The structure is not enclosed and you sure get the fee…