It was a very peaceful night on the
lock wall at Bobcaygeon. This place is so different than it was even
a couple of weeks ago. The weather is still good but the cottagers have gone back home, kids are back to
school and other folks back to work after vacations. For breakfast, the Full Cup
lived up to it's expectations with the best peameal bacon anywhere.
Peter, Cheryl and Lois all agreed :-)
We left Bobcaygeon about 10:30 or so.
Needed to be in Fenelon Falls by 1 pm as that's when our rental car was due
in to pick us up (Enterprise: We'll pick you up!! They drove 20 minutes
from Lindsay to come and get us.). So we cruised on ahead of Deja Vu
and had Guppy tied up at the top of the lock by the time Peter and
Cheryl showed up. It was fun taking their picture from the bridge.
The car came about 2:30 and when Steve
went back to the main office to complete the paperwork, he and the
agent came up with a great plan: just drop this car at Buffalo, pick
up another for the trip to North Carolina. Long story but much easier than the convoluted plan I had devised!
It was our last night together –
Cheryl had us over for scamp alfredo last night – so the vote was
to just go out for Chinese. Nice dinner and TriOminoes afterward.
Again no score keeping but this time I was pretty sure that I won …..
It was an early morning. Up at 6:30 to
pack up anything in the boat that needed to go back to the trawler.
Not a whole lot, really, but it all takes time.
What friends - even in the rain Peter and Cheryl helped us finish up
and sent us off – Steve with the car to the marina and me with the
boat to the marina. We'll see them in Florida – maybe Lois will
come down! We really enjoyed meeting and spending some time with her. She will always have a sleeping bag on Yesterday's Dream :-)
What we didn't realize was how
protected the channel by the locks was from the wind. Once I got out
on the lake, I'm thinking we sure should have brought this boat over
last night. But with Steve and Derek (the marina owner) on the dock we managed to get Guppy tied
up nicely even though everything was really bouncing around like
crazy. By the time we were done though we were both soaked to the bone. Steve tried to take the canvas down but it was just too windy. Maybe we should have done what Deja Vu did: just stay another
day and let the weather clear up! Oh well – hindsight.
The nasty weather persisted through a
good part of the day. We made it to Niagara Falls, crossed the
boarder with minimal holdups and arrived at Buffalo for the car
tradeoff. Enterprise in Ontario make it quite pricey to drive it's
car to North Carolina so we swapped it for a National rental. Due in
to New Bern by 2 pm tomorrow. Sounds like there will be some Browns
watching – yea!!! Thanks to Matt and Wendy getting the dish off of
Yeserday's Dream and setting it up at their house :-) Thanks, guys!
The plan is to drive until about 8 pm or
so. Stop somewhere and then up at 6 am to finish the drive back.
Total of 12 hours from Buffalo + 4 hours from Fenelon Falls to
Buffalo. No wonder I'm getting tired ….
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