Houseboat-Palooza!

Friday, September 11th. When we left off, we had just pulled in at Bobcaygeon and had the wall pretty much to ourselves... there was one other boat about our size and a small houseboat. It was blissfully quiet.

That all changed a couple hours later when a total of 9 houseboats pulled up on our side of the lock (no idea how many were on the other side). Of those 9, one appeared to be operated competently. With the rest, there was a lot of banging and shouting. Fortunately, they made up for that noise by turning on their stereos at an extreme volume. I also wasn’t aware that you cannot speak in a normal tone on a houseboat... apparently, one must yell at all times. Maybe to be heard over the stereo or the generator?

Really fortunate, Wild Blue is pretty snug, if not completely soundproof, when she is all closed up. It was another cool night, so when we did go to bed, you couldn’t hear a thing.