Friday June 15: On to Peterborough!

After spending one night at Young's Point and then a night at the Lakefield Marina, it was time to continue south.

Lakefield is always a nice stop and it was great to have a 'regular' shower. Which means all the hot water you want and no clean-up afterwards!

Don't get me wrong - the shower on Guppy is fine and great but it's just not like a land shower :-)

So after breakfast we headed out for the 8 lock trip to Peterborough. On the way out of Lakefield we saw what looked like a 1950's (?) Ford truck permanently attached to a couple of pontoons! Not at all sure what that was about :-) This is maybe something my brother Pat should think about doing with his old truck!

We really don't look forward to the trip today. Fortunately it wasn't terribly hot as traveling through the locks on a hot day is just miserable.

Turned out to be a great trip though with most locks open and waiting for us. The lockmasters communicate with each other to help keep the boat traffic moving through the system.

Of the 8 locks we'll go through today, one is the liftlock at Peterborough. Always fun. One is at Lakefield - which is electric. The rest of the 6 locks are hand operated (historic reasons) and are of course much slower than the electrically operated locks.

The view from the top of the liftlock is impressive as always. This is the highest lift on the system - 65 feet.

For more info on this lock, click here.

One more lock to go and we are set for the night! We'll spend a couple of nights at the bottom of the next lock. It's an easy bike ride into town (well, except for one awful hill) and since our dockage is covered with our seasonal mooring pass, it seemed to make sense.

The guy fishing near us was quite interesting. He and his wife were from Barrie (about an hour or so away) and they love fishing for carp here.

Steve now knows how to catch carp (assuming he'd want to do this!) with a single kernel of corn. I can't remember how much this one weighted - maybe 15 lbs?? Anyway, he just enjoys the catch - and then tosses the fish back in after weighing it.

He said it was the perfect way to spend the day: just he and his wife - no kids, no grandkids - fishing for carp :-)

As we were getting ready to leave Sunday and move to the Peterborough Marina for a week, the Kawartha Voyager approached - with the nose of the boat folded up so it would fit into the lock.




It's really quite impressive to see this cruise ship move through the Trent Canal system.

Finally - time to head out to the Peterborough with it's wonderful fountain in Little Lake!

Talk about ducks in a row - guess it could also be said of the geese!

And turtles as well!