Peterborough – Monday, July 23- Tues. Morning July 24

We spent 6 days at the Peterbourough Marina.

 

Once again we waited for lots of other boats who wanted to be the first ones through Lock 20.  This lock was just outside of the marina.  We had a big boat directly behind us and the cruise boat that you see below was headed over to this parking spot to load passengers. John wanted to pull away from the dock before we got pinned in by the pick cruise boat so we pulled out a few minutes early. We left the marina after a free pumpout at 10:30 but didn’t get through the lock until 11:30.

 

 

This lock leads into the famous Peterborough lift  lock. This is the cruise boat that was beside us in our slip.

 

 

 

The famous Peterborough Lift Lock.  One lock is going down while the other lock is going up. We were met by Rob taking lots of pictures of us.  He does this for a lot of loopers and then he sends the pictures to them for their blogs.  Here are some of the great picutres that he got of us going into the lock and all the way through it.

 

 

 

 

Rob did a great job of documenting our passing thru this historic lock.  He caught us coming down the canal, then from the viewing window above, then roughly 70 feet up where we will end up and then sitting at the top of the world when the 90 second lift was complete. Thanks Rob!!!

 

It was exciting to finally go through the infamous Lift Lock.  This is one of the things that all loopers look forward to when doing the Trent Severn.  We went through the lock with Greek’s Folly and a boat called Sea Tiger a 45 foot Carver.   That day we only traveled  10.2 miles but went through 7 locks.  We were hoping to get to Young’s Point lock #27 but we had the lock master at Lock 25 call to find out if there was any room at the lock.  We were told that it was full so we stayed above Lakefield Lock #26.  We didn’t arrive to Lakefield until 4:30 and it was just starting to rain.  After  dinner on the boat the rain subsided so we walked to the ice cream store.

This area of Ontario is known for it’s  great Kawartha ice cream.  Tom and John are trying to eat it at every stop.

Tuesday morning we left around 8:30 and cruised for almost 40 miles.  This by far is the prettiest part of the Trent Severn that we have gone through.  Nice lakes, small narrow curvy passages and some parts that look just like the Thousand Islands that we visited last year.  There are small islands with only a small cottage on them to grand islands with expensive houses on them.  All of these are separated by waterways and rocky spots.

Narrow channel with no room to pass another boat

Who knows???

Church on a island for the locals…

Rocks on the edges of the channels