June 26, 2017

Our second day on the Trent-Severn Canal was much like the first, locks, canal, lakes and then repeat.  Yesterday we barely missed a nasty rainstorm.  Today we missed the bad part but we were differently wet.  So far Ontario's weather is a lot like Florida, rainstorms in the afternoon but the scenery is beautiful.  It looks a lot like Maine.  

There is no commercial shipping on the waterway only pleasure craft.  The houses are decorated for Canada Day, July 1st.  As we cross Rice Lake we went by Hiawatha's First Nation Reservation.

Tonight we are in Peterborough, Ontario.  We were suppose to go through lock #19, but we were 15 minutes late which meant the lock was closed and we were stuck on the wall outside the lock.  I guess the best thing about this spot is that we are first in line.  To get this spot was a test of Jim's driving skills and my roping the cleat skill.  A lot of tense moments in docking.  We were told Lake Ontario is the highest it has ever been.  So much water is coming into the lake that the rivers are all swollen and flooded.  Canada is dumping as much water as it can to help out.  They dump the equivalent of 4 Olympic swimming pools every second to drop

the water 1 centimeter a week.  Needless to say it is a loosing battle.  I guess the Trent Severn Waterway was closed 2 weeks ago because of high water.  We lucked out.  We are going to stop tomorrow in Peterborough for a couple of days.  The crew needs

. Verizon informed us that we can't download pictures because we are in Canada and our plan doesn't  cover that.???

 So you will just have to use your imagination.

Plan to come to our house when we get back to see all of our pictures of this area.  I promise you'll love them.