After a quick breakfast, it was on to
the lift lock. First lockage of the day begins around 9. It takes a
few minutes for all of the lock personnel to be in place.
Steve is in his customary place on the
bow with the boat at the very front of the lock chamber.
Along for the ride with us is a couple
from Michigan – Lois and Tom. They had stopped by the top of the
lock last night and were hoping to see it in action. Sadly the lock
had already closed – but if they came back in the morning, they
would be welcome to ride through the lock with us.
They actually came! It was pleasant
chatting with them. They were on a short vacation to the area (mostly
to visit grandchildren in the area) and taking in some of the sites.
After the 90 second ride down the
lift lock, we tied up to the wall just below. The liftlock museum was
our goal – they have a movie about the building of the Trent Canal
along with some very nice exhibits of liftlocks from around the
world.
These locks are really the engineering
marvels!
Why is it that these water parks were
never around when our kids were little? They would have LOVED these
things!!
This particular water park is very
close to where we ended up spending the night – at the next lock
down the system. So we traveled a whole ¾ of a mile yesterday! It's a
great place for the night – the bike path actually runs across the
lock door!
A ride to downtown Peterborough was hot
but nice. Found the library with very slow internet (even on their
computers) so we opted for Tim Horton's and their free wifi. Of
course we felt obligated to buy something …. chocolate covered
boston crème donut.
Hard to go wrong with the combo (and a
reasonable amount of saturated fat to boot :-))
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