The sunset at Fenelon the night before
we left there was the reddest I think we have ever seen. And we
almost missed it except for the red glare on the side of the boat in
front of us. Spectacular. Quick- grab the camera and head to the west end
of the dock!
Definitely a nice ending to the day :-)
Thursday was no wind and sunshine. And
hot. No happy mediums around here it seems. Sturgeon Lake was like
glass as we slowly made our way to Bobcaygeon as we make one last
pass through our favorite places on the Trent.
What a great little town. We stayed at
the top of the lock where we could find welcome shade under the large
trees here. With our bikes off, it was easy to hit the hardware
store, the grocery store and the library.
In the morning, we moved to below the
locks just in time for our pre-ordered chelsea roll from our favorite
bakery. It was hard but I managed to eat two of the almost sickly
sweet gooey rolls! Pre-ordering is nice because then we were assured
of getting one that is still warm. We learned this trick when Becky
was up here with us in June :-) Steve took this opportunity to swap out
his new anchor with the old one. Anyone need a nice CQR anchor?
After a couple of hours of indecision,
it was off to Buckhorn for the night. It was just not a very nice day
though – a bit of rain off and on. We still enjoyed the slow ride
through Pigeon and Buckhorn lakes and ended up with a spot below the
lock – under the bridge! We didn't start out there but when the
rain started it seemed like the place to go and especially with Steve
cooking on the Coleman.
We weren't interested so much in
staying at Buckhorn as much as we were interested in staying at
Lovesick Lock on Saturday night … of a holiday weekend. So the
reasoning was we would stay below the lock at Buckhorn and then get
up early and head the 5 miles to Lovesick.
The plan worked great – we ended up
with our favorite spot on top at the end of the wall space. I'm
beginning to wonder if we just don't like to be around people as we
always seem to be seeking out spaces that provide lots of room …...
We thought of Matt and Wendy's dog
Fozzi when we saw the ramp the folks on the boat behind us used to
enable their older dog get on and off the boat. Maybe Fozzi could be
a boat dog too! (We pulled Guppy back after that boat left –
perfect.)
It was a red letter catching day for
Steve: this 2 ½ foot musky (which tried to eat the sunfish which was
on Steve's line), a equally as large pickeral (which had to be thrown
back because it was too long – I know weird – but that the
fishing regulations up here) and bunches of big sunfish! Great day as
sea as Steve likes to say.
Plus another muskie that had grabbed a
sunfish on the line but eventually it got tired of fighting Steve for
the sunfish so it just let go. What fun!
A quick kayak ride around to view some of the trees that have been blown down in the area. The root system is shallow due to the rock rather than soil base so when blown over, the tree pulls the entire root system up with it.
And some wildlife as well: a log full
of turtles!
This is as far as we go - time to turn around and head back to Fenelon Falls where we'll leave the boat and head back home ... eventually. But first a detour to California and Arizona!
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