Saturday June 15: Coboconk!

We finally decided it was really time to leave Fenelon Falls after staying 5 nights.

Many projects were completed so now it was time to start moving again - and the weather was perfect! Sunny skies and warm weather. The only lock we needed to go through was Rosedale. It's always a nice lock but with Fenelon Falls so close, I'm not sure we ever stay there.

Steve worked for a day and a half on the flybridge. It's amazing how this boat grows when trying to get it cleaned up. Good thing removing oxidation and waxing is a Steve job :-)

My project was to finish up the shower in the bathroom. With the wood blocks now firmly attached to the ceiling, it was time to put the track up.

A trip to the dollar store for curtain hooks and I was good to go. Job done. This was a great improvement - sorry that Becky wasn't around to take a shower in the new improved bathroom! Maybe next year :-)

On our way out of Rosedale we passed what is now a home. But it used to be an ice cream store. I remember stopping here when we were kids. One time we left the dock only to discover we had left my youngest brother, Dick, behind! After all, with 5 kids on a 21-foot boat, it would be easy to do.

Rather than going back to the dock, my dad told him to just swim over to the boat!

Once in Coboconk, we found out it was the Fresh Water Summit Festival this weekend. Sounded like some fun things going on to celebrate Coboconk being on Balsam Lake: the highest point on the Trent system. Up until now we have been going upstream. Once we cross Balsam Lake and continue moving toward Georgian Bay, we'll being going downstream.

Our favorite 'junk' store (really like a dollar store) produced some great finds.

Steve thought about the skull belt just in case we attended another MTOA rendezvous where pirate dress was needed. He ended up passing on it.

But we bought some other great stuff: wire brushes, liquid epoxy to install the depth finder, a grater so Steve can grate the ginger (I don't like ginger but he says I do as long as it's grated small enough), a small container of 4 little single use tubes of super glue (great for 'stitching up' a cut), a new shower head along with the swivel holder, trash bags (they charge 2 to 5 cents for plastic bags at the grocery stores here - our usual trash bags) and a couple of storage containers.

Steve is headed back this morning to pick up some Craftsman screwdrivers that were $1 each. What a buy!

This really neat 1957 Larson boat docked behind us for a while. I loved the taillights! The owner said they really work too.


There was a small boat parade as a part of the festival - this is the dalmation mascot of the Fire Deparment.

And what a better way to finish the night than with fireworks!

Right over our boat. Literally.

The closest we've ever been to fireworks before!