THIS WAS ONE OF THE LOCKS ON THE TRENT SEVERNE WITH OUR FRIENDS “PENNY PINCHIN” BEHIND US….JIM AND ROBIN BROUGHT PIZZA FOR DINNER AND WE HAD A FABULOUS TIME…GOOD FRIENDS, GOOD TIMES!
THIS IS OUR FRIENDS, MIKE AND RUTH, HOME IN ORILLIA WHERE THEY AND THEIR NEIGHBORS WELCOMED US TO THEIR DOCK FOR A FEW DAYS. WHAT A FABULOUS PLACE AND THEY TREATED US LIKE ROYALITY…TAKING US SHOPPING AND SIGHTSEEING. DINED OUT WITH THE PULCINES ON ONE NIGHT AND THE NEXT WITH MORE FRIENDS:
BY COUPLES LEFT TO RIGHT: MIKE AND RUTH SCHULLER, RALPHIE AND ME, JIM ADAMSON AND FIANCEE’ ROBIN COCKBURN, DAVE AND ROSEMARY MARKS. GREAT CHINESE BUFFETT…YUMMY!
MIKE AND RUTH LEAVING ON THEIR TRIP MONDAY MORNING AS WE DEPART AND CONTINUE ON OUR WAY AFTER A BRIEF REPAIR AT CRATE’S MARINA…THANK YOU MARK!!!!!
CONTINUING ON OUR WAY BRINGS SOME INTERESTING SIGHTS AS WE GET CLOSER TO THE “BIG CHUTE”.
SOME OF THESE COTTAGES ARE LARGE….I WOULD BE HAPPY TO LIVE IN JUST THE BOATHOUSES!
THIS IS THE ‘BIG CHUTE’ MARINE RAILWAY…I AM GOING TO POST PICS OF OTHER BOATS GOING THRU…BASICALLY YOU ENTER, YOUR BOAT IS PLACED IN A SLING AND YOU ARE CARRIED OVER THE ROADWAY ON RAILROAD TRACKS TO THE OTHER SIDE:
THIS WAS US IN THE CHUTE WITH A SMALLER VESSEL OFF OUR STERN…THERE WAS A TOTAL OF THREE VESSELS….FOLLOWING PICS ARE OF THE WAY DOWN:
INTERESTING RIDE BUT SOMEHOW AFTER ALL THE HYPE I WAS A BIT DISSAPPOINTED…..JUST DIDN’T SEEM BIG ENOUGH…..BUT GREAT FUN!
DOCKED AT THE FLOATING DOCK JUST PAST THE CHUTE FOR THE NIGHT WITH FOUR OTHER LOOPER BOATS: ‘PATRIOT’, ‘PENNY PINCHIN’, ‘FIELD TRIP’, AND ‘SPIRIT’. NEEDLESS TO SAY DOCTAILS WERE GREAT!
TRAVELING TO THE GEORGIAN BAY WAS TRULY BEAUTIFUL….MANY SMALL ISLANDS AND MORE ‘COTTAGES’…
I LOVE THESE STONE MONUMENTS SEEN ALL ALONG THE WAY IN THE GEORGIAN BAY…..I KNOW THEY HAVE A STORY BUT CANNOT FOR THE LIFE OF ME RECALL WHAT IT IS…..WE SPENT ONE NIGHT AT ANCHORAGE AROUND WRECK ISLAND AND MOVED ON TO KILLBEAR MARINA….VERY NICE PLACE WITH A RESTAUANT, STORE AND MARINA STORE….NO WIFI SO …SPENT A COUPLE DAYS…NASTY STORM ONE NITE:
UNDERSTAND THERE WERE MANY POWER OUTAGES AND MUCH DAMAGE FROM THESE CLOUDS…WE WERE VERY LUCKY.
