Oh, Canada...

We hauled Wild Blue out and headed northeast. No problems going through Canadian Customs, but Mother Nature made sure we had a wet ride. We decided to stop to get a local cell phone and further decided to call it a night in Belleville. We pulled into a Wal-Mart parking lot and settled in for the evening. It’s been a while since we’ve overnighted at “Camp Wal-Mart.” The rain stopped, Joan is cooking supper, and this should be a good place to spend the night.


Monday, August 31st. It was a chilly night; got down around 50º last night. We had to run the heat this morning. We left Wally-World, and headed for Burleigh Falls. Along the way, Izzy got pretty frisky... and fast! She can now jump up onto the dash before either of us can grab her. Each day, she discovers another of her super-powers.


We made it into Burleigh Falls around 11:00. There isn’t much of a town, but there is a boat ramp and a place to park the truck at the lock. We got Wild Blue ready to go back in the water, bought a lock pass, loaded the dinghy and bikes back onto the boat and shoved off.


The Trent-Severn Waterway is completely different from the Erie Canal... more lakes and open water; beautiful blue water. The way you transit the locks is different - no radio contact, you just wait for them to open the lock. LOTS of islands. As is our usual custom when arriving in a new area, we were down early today; stopped for the night at Reach Harbour.


We picked this place because it has wifi (that’s a computer connection we can get wirelessly on the boat). It took a LOT of fussing, but I was able to get our Skype account charged up so we can make calls relatively inexpensively with our computer... when we have a connection. This way, we’ll be able to save $$ on the cell calls, too. Just another option.

We walked around the marina area... pretty place. We have power and water, and there are decent showers and restrooms. Oh, and hand-dipped ice cream. We picked up another book on the Trent-Severn, and we’ll spend the evening making some plans. We put off coming to this area until now, with the thought that we’d miss the crowds. One of the lockmasters today told us that he expects this weekend to be the busiest weekend of the season. Who knew? So, in Canada, is it Labour Day Weekend?

One of the guys on the C-Dory forum asked if I’d post a map of New York with our travels overlaid on it. What do you think?