Ottawa

Yesterday (Sunday)on the way to Ottawa we passed through the Carillon Lock…

This is the Carillon Lock…69 feet up in one lock…What makes unique is that the door rises straight up…

 

 

This is what it looks like from the bottom…Those are stairs at the end…What you see as the top is really the bottom of the top, known as the sill…It’s 6 feet under water when full…This is the view from the top…

 

These boats were rafted (they call it shouldered in Canada) to us in the Carillon lock…

And this was our neighbor – birth defect on the tail – not car door !!!

 

 

Just a quick update…We arrived in Ottawa last night (Sunday) and camped out at the lower end of the locks…This morning (Monday) we were ready at nine to tackle the locks…This is a flight of 8 connected locks and supposedly takes an hour and a half to transit…That’s once you start…They brought a double flight down (that means they locked two groups – one behind the other) first, so the 9:00 starting time turned into 1130 and we didn’t finish until around 1:30…It was so hard on the boat starting and stopping eight times, I ran the battery down and the last two locks were started with emergency battery !!!

 

 

Today is Colonel By Day…He built the Rideau Canal…Big party at the locks – face painting and such…They had a blow up beaver set up and the Rideau mascot came on our boat and surprised Linda…