June 27, 2017

Sorry about the blog being a day late, but we were very busy doing NOTHING all day.  What a change of pace.  After going through the lock we slept under, we docked at docked at the marina by 10 and relaxed.  It was great.  We found charts for our next section of the trip, Georgian Bay.  Pristine waters, beautiful scenery, 30,000

islands, a small scattering of hamlets, and very few services.  We will be like pioneers for 250 miles.  I'm sure we will be out of communication for about a week.

Yesterday we discovered a small tid bit.  Peterborough has black

squirrels.  Now I have seen white in North Carolina, tufted in

Arizona, black in Ontario, and grey in the US.  Darwin at work.

Jim and I went to lunch at a small restaurant that was featured on the food channel, Two Dishes. The food was delicious.  The chef, not cook, made interesting combinations of food.  Jim had Korean

fried chicken and ate every bite with a satisfied  smile on his face.  My smoked salmon sandwich also was very yummy and someday I

hope to try and copy the ingredients as there are no recipes for them

she makes them up as she prepares the dishes.

As we continue travel North and West on the canal, the towns become smaller, the locks are more diverse, and the scenery is

more beautiful.  We were very fortunate to meet fellow loopers that

are from Pinellas county, a former Marine and she was a teacher in

Sharing a lock

the county.  That is where we were last night , relaxing and having a good time with new friends who we hope, will become good friends when we are off the boat. The picture is a map of theTrent-Severn Canal system.  We are in Peterborough heading North and west.  Maybe this will help you see what lies before us.  For some reasons I am able to send pictures today. Enjoy 

We started at the bottom by the freighter, going out at the top by the pine trees.