A little rain this morning but by the time we got under way it stopped. The sun came out for a while this part of the Rideau Canal had some medium size lakes with a lot of islands many of which had some beautiful camps(houses) on them. There were a lot of marrow cuts between the lakes that you would not want to meet another boat on. Around 10 the wind picked up while we were on Styx River which was more like a lake and everything around it was flat as usual the wind was at our bow and it kick up 2 to 5 footers. The passage across the river(lake) was about 30' wide and they had markers every 50 yards,the path across looked like a snake made it. We arrived at the 4 locks at Kingston Mills at noon and had to wait as they said the wall below was full and we wanted to spend the night. We Lin and I passed up the first lock thru and walked to the bottom to check the wall out there was room, oh well HEY, did not get down thru the locks till 4:45 and it was in a heavy rain. Lin was on the bow all this time and even with rain gear got soaked I felt real bad but I did get 1 arm partial wet. We are about 4 miles from Kingston and will go by that tomorrow and start to make our way across the top of Lake Ontario(north Channel) to Trent our next canal adventure of 240 miles of rivers,lakes, and canal leading us to the Georgian Bay on Lake Huron.
Today we traveked 22.6 miles 7 locks 2 swing bridges in 8.5 hours which seemed like 20
Well guess I have told you enough for today and it is almost 8pm and almost dark enough to hit the bed
Till next time
Lin & Rich
Kingston Mills, Ontario
Mom you need to learn how to do the driving part through those locks so dad is the one doing the tough muscle work and getting wet..seems as though he has it easy. love you guys!
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