Friday, July 24
We wanted to go through the Merrickville locks (three of them) this morning, but the Kawartha would be first. Because of the heavy traffic lately we got underway about 8:20 motored out of the pond were the dockage is, around to the channel so that we could take a spot on the blue lin
e when the Kawartha left.
She was just leaving as we got there. We idled in the channel for a couple of minutes and she
pulled into the lock and we tied to the blue line. Diana took a picture of the bow folded up so that the boat is not too long for the lock.
It had rained some over night and everything was wet this morning, it looks like it is not going
to be a great day for boating.
Finally it was our turn and we started down the thre
e locks, this picture shows the view from the second chamber.
We passed another adult loon with a young in tow.
Two miles after Merrickville is another lock, the first of three in less than a mile. They try to coordinate the traffic going thru. We locked through the first two with three other boats and they held us in the second lock so that we would pass boats going the other way between the
second and third locks. It turned out there were seven boats going the other way.
A few miles further is a swing bridge about a half mile before the Burritt’s Rapids Lock. The lock staff at Burritt’s knows when boats are coming and ride a bicycle up to open it.
This was as far as we were going today. We tied to the look wall above the lock and have settled in for the day. It rained and drizzled much of the morning and hot soup tasted good for lunch. It was only a seven mile day, but six locks.
This is a long canal section and there is a walking
trail down the peninsula when it stop drizzling for a while we walked part of it. Diana took this picture looking back at Memories and the lock station.
We wanted to go through the Merrickville locks (three of them) this morning, but the Kawartha would be first. Because of the heavy traffic lately we got underway about 8:20 motored out of the pond were the dockage is, around to the channel so that we could take a spot on the blue lin
e when the Kawartha left.She was just leaving as we got there. We idled in the channel for a couple of minutes and she
pulled into the lock and we tied to the blue line. Diana took a picture of the bow folded up so that the boat is not too long for the lock.It had rained some over night and everything was wet this morning, it looks like it is not going
to be a great day for boating.Finally it was our turn and we started down the thre
e locks, this picture shows the view from the second chamber.We passed another adult loon with a young in tow.
Two miles after Merrickville is another lock, the first of three in less than a mile. They try to coordinate the traffic going thru. We locked through the first two with three other boats and they held us in the second lock so that we would pass boats going the other way between the
second and third locks. It turned out there were seven boats going the other way.A few miles further is a swing bridge about a half mile before the Burritt’s Rapids Lock. The lock staff at Burritt’s knows when boats are coming and ride a bicycle up to open it.
This was as far as we were going today. We tied to the look wall above the lock and have settled in for the day. It rained and drizzled much of the morning and hot soup tasted good for lunch. It was only a seven mile day, but six locks.
This is a long canal section and there is a walking
trail down the peninsula when it stop drizzling for a while we walked part of it. Diana took this picture looking back at Memories and the lock station.
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