Of course, Moose was up before us and did some makeshift fishing and caught 6 more fish. (He and I are reading Hatchet together and I think it's rubbing off on him.) He tried to hold one but it had spikes on it and scratched his fingers.
First stop this morning was Brass Point Bridge which needed to swing open for us. Parks Canada opens at 10 am Monday-Thursday through the end of this week before switching to summer hours, so we had to wait a little bit. We threw the anchor down and waited about 40 minutes before we could pass through. Once the anchor came up, it was covered in a mound if mud and grass. The kids named it Monster. It really did look like a monster hanging off the front chain! I used the boat hook to try to clean it up a bit, and it came off much easier than I thought it would, but still took quite a bit of elbow grease.
There were 7 locks left on the Rideau Canal before we made it to Kingston, Ontario- 2 at Upper Brewers, 1 at Lower Brewers, and the final 4 at Kingston Mills (the first one was on its own and then the final 3 were stair steps back to back, similar to how the Rideau started in Ottawa).
Rideau Canal, in its entirety, has 49 locks over 126 miles from Ottawa to Kingston, ON. How fun to add this to places we've been not many people from the US (Colorado, specifically) can say they've boated this whole canal. (Thanks, Debbie for the route suggestion!) I also feel like it deserves a place on our national parks list, even though it is in Canada. It'll join Banff, Jasper, and Yoho from our 2013 national park road trip with LiLi, before kids.
Rideau Canal, in its entirety, has 49 locks over 126 miles from Ottawa to Kingston, ON. How fun to add this to places we've been not many people from the US (Colorado, specifically) can say they've boated this whole canal. (Thanks, Debbie for the route suggestion!) I also feel like it deserves a place on our national parks list, even though it is in Canada. It'll join Banff, Jasper, and Yoho from our 2013 national park road trip with LiLi, before kids.
7 locks today. Trip total: 71 locks.
Favorite Rideau Parts:
Bear- the canal itself. Reminded me of my favorite parts of the Dismal Swamp and my favorite parts of Maine.
Moose- catching fish in bucket
Roo- everything- The towns we stopped in had cute little shops.
Ben- the mechanics and engineering of the (up) locks
Lisa- the normalcy of locks in day-to-day life of these communities (while it is such a marvel idea to us) and people pushing their bikes over the lock doors and picnicking there to spend their leisure time watching boats
Ben- the mechanics and engineering of the (up) locks
Lisa- the normalcy of locks in day-to-day life of these communities (while it is such a marvel idea to us) and people pushing their bikes over the lock doors and picnicking there to spend their leisure time watching boats
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