Dinner overlooking Lower Buckhorn Lake
was very peaceful It's SO quiet – except for the racoons! Trash was
taken to the restrooms and all food stuffs that might interest them
are put into the cooler. Guess if they can smell food, they are going
to get it! Sure enough, I woke up to a noise and there looking in the
door screen was a masked bandit – cute but not welcome for sure! A
flashlight in it's eyes and off it went. Perhaps on to the next boat?
We were off fairly early and arrived at
Buckhorn Lock early on Thursday morning. It was a whole 8 miles if
you meander around a bit. I can get used to these short travel days
:-) Part of the day was spent below the lock (in the shade) and then
later in the day we moved to the top of the lock. Both are nice
places to stay.
There is a hardware store here so it's
a good place for a project. When there is a project, the v-berth gets
opened up as that's where all of the tools are stored. Using the
crawl in bunk under the dinette for our sleeping berth has really
worked out well.
Steve's project was to move the engine
thermostat back into the engine proper. It had been moved to permit
installation of a water heater (which was fine) but the engine didn't
seem to be running hot enough – at least by looking at the dash
gauge for engine temperature.
The junk store was next on our list.
It's just a fun place that is totally filled with what might really
be considered junk! Mmmm...this place has been cleaned up. Apparently
the old owner sold out and the new owner cleaned house. Steve found a
new wallet so he was very happy. Now if he would just get rid of some
of that stuff he carries (that annoyingly I need occasionally :-))
Buckhorn for the most part is pretty
much the same. Still very busy with boat traffic and the sunset was
really nice. Steve framed the Buckhorn “Buck” with the setting
sun.
On to Bobcaygeon for the weekend. It's
one of our favorite stops (seems like I say this every place we go!)
and the weekends here are just crazy with boat traffic. So the idea
is to get in early and spend a couple of days enjoying people/boat
watching. Of course we didn't count on the houseboat with 6 guys
arriving at about 10 pm. They are truly on holiday – partying until
4 am! I'm getting too old for this. We now have earplugs and a number
for the police if there is another rowdy bunch :-) I mean really - midnight, 1 am - ok no problem. But 4 in the morning???
The bakery is still here – along with
the wonderful chelsea rolls. I think I ate most of them myself –
just too good.
Steve's all time favorite place for
breakfast on the Trent system is here in Bobcaygeon at the Full Cup.
Pemeal bacon (cured salted pork with cornmeal on the outside)
breakfast as only they can make it! He told the lady cooking that he
had been waiting for two years to be able to come back and have
breakfast there – not sure if she thought he was crazy or not :-)
Time for laundry today (it was my turn) – same coin laundry that we
have been going to for 20 years – kind of surprised it's still
there.
Lastly, the sign in the restaurant this
morning. I've seen similar but I hadn't seen one like this. It was
fun :-) Tomorrow, it's off to Fenelon Falls, another big travel day
of about 15 miles :-) (after breakfast at the full cup, I'm sure!)`
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