Quick Update

We are now at Fraser Park Marina in Trenton, Ontario, the first stop on the Trent Severn Waterway. We left the St. Lawrence on Tuesday and headed into Lake Ontario.  Perfect crossing, winds head on and very light.  It took ten and a half hours, which means we both got a good nap out of it!!   The only thing we had to watch for was a six foot male dressed in tan shorts and a t shirt, gone missing Monday near Buffalo. Not a good outcome I'm sure. 

Reminds me of the experience we had at Cedar Island in the 1000 Islands.  Lots of late Saturday traffic at this anchorage.  All of a sudden a jet ski comes behind us and does what I guess he thought was a cool pass. Anyway, not so cool for him.  He lost control, fell off the jet ski which started circling and it took him about 10 tense (for us) minutes to swim to the jet ski and laboriously climb back on.  He was obviously majorly intoxicated.  When he got back on, I said "bet you won't be trying that maneuver again", since he was majorly intoxicated that advice didn't sink in....he sped off toward shore the same we he sped past our boat....IDIOT!

Back to the quick update.

We plan to leave tomorrow morning to start the Trent Severn Waterway.  

This will take us on a winding waterway from Trenton to Port Severn on Georgian Bay, Lake Huron.  387 Kilometers, or 240 miles, encompassing 41 locks, a marine railway and 2 hydraulic lift locks. Another experience of a lifetime for us mariners.  Especially since we are now old enough to be impressed!

After that we will enter Georgian Bay and then head through the 30,000 Islands instead of the North Channel, into Lake Huron, the Straits of Mackinaw and finally Lake Michigan to Petoskey.  Anyway that's the plan.

This will take 10 days to two weeks at our best estimation.  Hopefully we will find more Wi-Fi on the way.  

Today we got grocery's and washed the boat.  After anchoring the last two nights we got bugged big time. We hosed them off the best we could but a major spit and shine was called for.  It was hotter n' hell her today way up in the 90's and like a blast furnace so we did a mid day siesta in our tepid air conditioning and then attacked the bug mobile around 4:00.  Finished at 6:30, a major job.

Anyway, now we are clean tucked in and ready to face tomorrow.

Here are a few pics of the last couple of days.

 Not only bugs we've had a major weed on the anchor issue the past two nights.  This morning it took a half hour to get the anchors up.  They were embedded together with weeds.  By the time I got the camera the boat had moved from the patch but it was BAD....two of us could hardly lift the auxiliary anchor...won't be using that anymore in these waters.  With the weeds we're glued to the bottom with one.  Old habits die hard.

 First drawbridge on the Murray Canal which leads from Presqui'lle Bay to Bay of Quinte...the bridge tender held a pole with a small bucket to collect the $4.95 fee....quite medieval...anyway we had a pass for the waterway so there was no small drop in the bucket for Tie A Knot....just a major one to Parks Canada for our Season Canal Pass...nothing is free in Canada.

An interesting way to get a gallon of milk...It only comes in a plastic bag with three 'bladders' inside, which you then have to transfer to a usable vehicle for pouring.  Thankfully we had a nearly empty gallon container already so we just added it to that.  As far as recyclables they may have one up on the US in this.

                                       The bridge we'll go under tomorrow morning.

 Downtown Trenton where we had good luck at the Dollar Tree...

in the US everything is a dollar, here it's 

$1.25...

 Gary in his cute beat the sun hat...which he's worn twice...it was brutal today, carrying our $$$ Store cache.

Last night in Presque'ille Bay there were hundreds of swans.  They were in the marsh and gliding around in masses in the water.  None came close to the boat.

We anchored at the tip of Wolfe Island, Ontario, just before entering Lake Ontario.....Lots of wind generators turning serenely in the wind.  We've heard people say they don't want them, they make noise...we didn't hear a peep.  We need to get on this wagon train in the US, especially Florida where wind plays a big roll in the weather.  Someone told us the land owners are paid $800 a month for having one on their property plus free electric....I'm IN!!!

Sunset Wolfe Island 

 If you look hard you can see a freighter just past middle, port side, this woke me up but it took a while to make me get up and look.  So glad I did.  Is this not an awesome pre-sunrise photo!!

and....it turned into this beautiful sunrise...so what if it was only 5:30 am...
the perfect start to our crossing of Lake Ontario

So we continue our journey....