Into Georgian Bay!

We made it fine throught the remainder of the Trent-Severn Waterway and into Georgian Bay. In all, over the last month and a half, we have gone from the Hudson River and then up through the Erie canal, across Lake Ontario, then through the Trent-Severn. There were 82 locks! the Admiral and I were very busy over this period. Now we head for the North Channel which is a safer route than going out into Lake Huron to get to Mackinac Island.

We have pictures, maybe I'll get them to download at a faster wifi connection soon.

Last night we docked at Pentaguishene, Ont. where they actually have a place for people who are traveling the Loop!

As we left lake Simcoe, the terrain changed to pristine collections of granite rock formations, many of them with little cabins on them.

The most spectacular part of the Trent-Severn for us was the Big Chute Railway boat conveyor. If you can imagine this, we pulled our boat into a garage-like steel framed structure on rails. Huge straps on both sides of our boat began to lift it out of the water. Then the structure itself began to move slowly out of the water, taking us with it. These straps on each side of our boat kept us perfectly stable as we were carried over a hill and down about 65 feet into the waterway on the other side. It is an amazing tribute to Canadian engineering. Marlene was totally calm the whole time, actually relished the experience. Then I remembered she jumped out of a perfectly good airplane at 13,000 feet about 5 years ago.