Last night we had a beautiful sunset.
We have an appointment in Ottawa for routine engine maintenance and to pick up crew the
week of July 27, we are a couple days ahead of schedule, so we plan to go slowly up the Rideau. This morning dawned sunny, warm and calm, a glorious morning. Since we were not in a hurry Diana fixed blueberry pancakes with fresh blueberries from the farmers market yesterday.
About 9:00 we got underway. We saw a little more of the Canadian Shield granite but for the
next ten miles the canal goes through an old marsh that is now a shallow lake, there is a long 
narrow, buoyed channel that follows the old river bed. At the top of the lake there is productive farm land, wheat to port and corn to starboard.
We were soon approaching the Lower Brewers lock; note the bridge in the picture. When we lef
t this morning there were boats locking up at Kingston Mills. They ran faster than we did coming up the lake and caught up to us as we approached the lock. So there were three of us locking 
up together. When we reached the top the lock attendants manually swung the bridge open by pushing on a bar on the side. It must be well balanced.
Another couple of miles and we were at Upper Brewers Lock which is a flight of two chambers. The picture was taken looking to the side of the boat; the captain is head to pass the green buoy on the port side correctly. We exited the lock and headed for the dock above to tie up for the afternoon and evening. As we did the boats we had been locking with continued up stream. There is room to tie to both sides of this dock we
were the fourth boat on the dock and by night fall there were seven. Diana took this last picture of the lock staff a little later in the afternoon.Although the weather had been nice this morning there was a front that travelled with us all morning and by early afternoon it started to drizzle and though it never rained hard there was a light drizzle all evening. We sat inside and relaxed.
Life continues to be good.
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