Friday June 5: Still in Campbellford

It's been mostly play the last few days. We decided to just stay in Campbellford for another 3 days - not only is it a nice place to be but we're also dragging our feet a bit.

For the time being, the plan is to not go beyond Peterborough until mid July when we return from Idaho (we'll be cheering for our son-in-law as he competes in an Ironman there).

Peterborough is only a two day trip from here - three if you work at it :-)

Wednesday is the planned arrival date. So we have time ....

The days have turned quite pleasant - sunny and not too hot. There is a nice park with an easy to ride path back toward the suspension bridge that we saw as we approached the last lock.

The local Rotary has created a very nice bike/walk path that runs in a loop around the canal - which connects to the suspension bridge.

There were even some turtles to boot!

And Canadian geese of course. The young ones are getting pretty big already even though it's pretty early in the season.


Even though they really make a mess, it's still nice to see the geese.

Steve spent part of yesterday buffing out the flybridge.

As was true for the sides, the boat looks so much nicer and the dirt just washes away instead of getting stuck on the sides.

Having shade is always a nice thing even though the temps are in the mid-70's, the sun still gets quite warm.

Laundry was also on the list for yesterday. It's always nice to have that done - another thing I miss: the washer/dryer on the trawler ......

Thunderstorms were due in today about 2 pm. The clouds rolled in right on schedule. The rain was short lived though and the sun actually made an appearance by early evening.

One small job today: install a battery monitor. This will allow us to monitor the state of the batteries when we're running on the inverter rather than shore power. Of course the main electrical panel had to come out again but the whole job only took about an hour!

Tomorrow: farmer's market across the bridge in the morning plus a large community garage sale put on by the Lion's Club. I think Steve is still hoping to find one or two more pots for his induction burner!!

Sunday: we'll finally move on .....