Terry recently suggested a drive to Smiths Falls via the back roads.
We stopped at the canal locks, where I had spent a night aboard a small cruise boat in 2016, when I took 5-day cruise down the Rideau Canal.
I looked around to find the spot where we had moored at that time - but couldn't place it.
Was it where these smaller boats were now moored?
While Terry chatted with some people we met, I wandered around photographing interesting sights...
Hopefully nobody was hurt when this massive branch fall! It looks dangerous!
Families were swimming in the river..
Ducks and geese had settled in at a different beach.
Swans were fishing for food nearby...
Terry enjoyed watching them.
I asked one of the lock-keepers about the cruise boat I had been on in 2016 - the
Kawartha Voyageur...
Have they been doing canal cruises this year?
The boat wasn't all that large... It would be hard to socially distance, especially at mealtime...
I haven't seen them this year, she said.
Last year they had problems. Sometimes the water in the canal was too low. At other times it was too high...
Hmmm. I didn't realize that there were so many variables in boating on the canal...
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