Tuesday, June 27, 2017

Tuesday
June 27, 2017

Hi all!  We'll be staying at the Peterborough Marina in Ontario for the next couple of days.  Staff here is very friendly and especially looper friendly.  The staff gave us a gift package made up for loopers.  They even have a book where loopers sign in and leave their cards.  We paged through last years book and found four loopers we know.  Pretty cool.
We have no phone access while in Canada and only wifi when staying at marinas'. 



We left Trenton, Ontario Saturday June 24 and headed up the Trent-Severn Waterway.


This is Campbellford where we stayed Saturday and Sunday nights.  All the boats in the picture are fellow loopers.  We are way back second from last.


Campbellford is known for it's famous World's Finest Chocolate Factory chocolate.  We walked to the outlet store on Sunday and had to wait for it to open.


Of course Mike made friends with the couple waiting in the car here.  They offered to drive us back to the boat.


After the chocolate outlet store we walked past this beautiful church on the hill.


This old home was across from the church on the hill.


Our boats were parked next to a very nice town park in Campbellford.


Here's a couple videos of a Flight Lock we went through...
Basically, it's two locks connected together.... we even had a single boat in the other side of the lock going the opposite way.  Once both locks were at the same water level the doors opened and the single boat came into our lock...all of us were on the starboard wall and the boat coming into our lock pulled in on our empty port wall...then we 3 boats went into his lock, the doors closed and the water levels either went up or down, depending on which side you were in...






Campbellford also had a great little pub many of us visited.


Myron and Linda at the pub.


We walked next store to to pub and ate at a restaurant called "Capers Tap House" recommended by locals.  It was great.  This is Linda and Joell.

A pretty good beer...


In the Campbellford park next to our boats was this large Canadian 2 dollar piece.  It is called the Toonie.


All tourists take a picture of the Toonie.


We've had more than a few cold nights and after Campbellford we needed to get the quilt that Mikes sister Sue made back on the bed.  Soooooo nice and warm...

After Campbellford, ON we headed to Hastings, ON for one night.  It was a very small town and not much happening, so we moved on.


On our way to Peterborough, ON we saw our first loon sighting since starting the loop.  We really are getting closer to home.



Beautiful farm on the Trent-Severn waterway hillside.


Just about in Peterborough and we passed by this open bridge.  The college kids were jumping off of it and we had to watch out for them.


Then around the corner was the Peterborough Marina and their famous fountain.  

We will be staying in Peterborough for two nights, maybe three, if the weather gets nasty on Thursday.  They are kicking us out on Friday, but we do have reservations at another marina Friday night and Saturday night.  Saturday, June 1st,  is Canada Day.  Similar to our 4th of July.