Jeff and Lisa’s tiny boat blog

The Rideau Canal. Mañana - a Rosborough like ours.  We cruised with them Later in the Georgian Bay.  Russ and Carol on Spirit, gold loopers we met.  Rachel and Malcolm on Stay Cool and  Us on Boomerang. The town of Smiths Falls. Very pretty place. Le Beau Boats - rental boats owned by France. Notice the rub rails all over them! Entering a lock.       You can see the blue line. This is where you would tie Up your boat to notify lock staff that you want to lock through. Smiths Falls was an overnight stay.  It was very picturesque, docking alongside a nice park. The falls were pretty - but it’s not a natural waterfall; it’s created by the dam.  The lock was a single lock which lifted us 26’.  This particular lock used to have 3 locks to travel thorough. A new high level bridge was constructed, which required the flight of 3 locks be replaced with one lock. There were concerns over traffic restrictions with the previous swing bridge. You can still see the previous flight of three locks. Ra

Love seeing and listening to the loons! Boomerang looks like she’s sitting on a street! We’re docked on that wall. Leaving the lock. Entering the lock. The ruins of a woolen mill in Merrickville.  The spillway below the dam - very scenic and the dam trail Goes along side of it. Nice path with a chance to  Get your feet wet too! Locking through. Entering the lock. The spillway - very scenic.      This appeared to be a venue setting - looks like it used to                                           Be a church.                 We don’t see these signs in southern Illinois!         Super cute and looks like they celebrated Pride Month.                                             So pretty!         More of the Canadian Adirondack chairs signifying a                Peaceful place to sit, relax and soak up the beauty!                    I’m not sure what this boarded up building is.                                             The ruins.                                         Ruins again.    

Watson’s Mill and Dickinson House. Just finished locking up. Entering the lock.                         Rachel, Malcolm, me and Jeff.           Watson’s Mill - a working water powered flour mill.                                        Inside the mill.                                  Downtown Manotick.               Dickinson House was the mill owners home. Manotick is considered to be in the rural, southern part of Ottawa. As I said in a previous post, it’s a sprawling city! It’s a nice place, although a lot of these water towns begin to run together. Most of them have nice restaurants, pubs, art studios, etc; it’s just some are bigger than others with more (or less) of the same. In Manotock, we had the privilege of touring Watson’s Mill, a flour mill, powered by water. It’s one if the few operating grist mills in North America. They continue to sell flour,  baked bread and offer milling demonstrations ever Sunday. Unfortunately, we were not there on a Sunday. The mill was founded in

                                      Malcolm and Jeff.                 Traxx sniffing out that huge snapping turtle!          Jeff and Traxx - there was a few trails near the lock.       Our friend, Rachel - we’re playing the dice game, 10,000.               Reminds me of my Seniors Group when I was working                      At Choate - except we’re not seniors!          Not sure what building this is - looks like a mosque.                        Malcolm trying to fish out the nut.                           Trying to retrieve the prop nut.                                          “Hmmmm…”      Lots of Canada geese - I’m not sure if they were looking          For food or wanting to flog me.  I didn’t stick around                                             To find out.                                       A little chipmunk. A rowing team. The dam. This is Bill and Carol Bennett on Manana.  We met them            Later and cruised the Georgian Bay with them.     There were 3 snappin

Me, Jeff, Graham (Malcolm’s brother), Malcolm and Rachel. Boomerang. The water was so high! They really lifted us! Leaving Ottawa - it was a sprawling city.                 Experimental farms at Carleton University. We left the city of Ottawa and headed to Hartwells Lock, which were the next set of locks after Ottawa, (the flight of 8 locks.) Hartwells Lock had two locks to navigate through, which took about 30 minutes (about 15 minutes for each lock). We were lifted 21.5’. We could still see the skyline of Ottawa from  Hartwells Locks. There was a nice trail beside the locks. Adjacent to the lock, was Carleton University.  We were able to walk around the grounds of the university and visit the experimental farms - beautiful plants and a nice place to walk.  It looked like they were experimenting with various varieties of plants; there would be a row of peonies (example), with so many different colors, leaf variations, etc. It was a nice stop!