Air Temp: 63 Water Temp: 72
Winds: 4 mph
Speed: 9 knots
We took our time leaving the anchorage, it was so peaceful we hated to leave. We saw Sweet T cruise by us in the channel. She saw us too and texted us a photo, pretty funny. The anchor was full of grass and mud. Took 15 minutes to get it up and cleaned off!
Got to Peterborough Marina around 2. What a nice place. The staff is super helpful. Grocery and shopping nearby. We had a Looper reunion Docktails; and met up with Mel and Ann of Morningstar II and Mike and Tonya of Sweet T, along with some new Loopers as well.
This marina is quite the meeting place. Every Wednesday and Saturday, June thru August, the city hosts concerts at the band shell located right on the Marina property. This night The Keifer Sutherland Band was there. Yes of 24 fame. Let's just say he does not need to quit his day job. But his name drew a pretty big crowd; around 8 thousand we heard. Since we were staying at the marina, we got special up close seats, it was pretty cool.
Thursday, Mel had rented a car and volunteered to take Lori and I to a laundromat (I had too much to do to wait on the one washer and dryer at the marina). Then a trip to Walmart, which are few and far between but sometimes a necessary evil. Meanwhile back at the boat...Mike had to wait on new house batteries to be installed. Not a cheap prospect, especially when you have 10! We had been putting it off, so now we are good to go for another 3-4 years. Remember...it's a boat!
We had dinner outside at the marina restaurant with 10 other Loopers.
Friday, was Canada Day! We rode our bikes bout 1.5 miles with Mel, Dave and Lori to see the famous Peterborough Lift Lock. It is quite the marvel of engineering. It is the world's highest hydraulic lift lock. It opened in 1904 and took only 8 years to build. Can you imagine how long that would take today?! We will be locking in it on Sunday. So I should have some cool pictures then.
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| Mel is across the street, that is the lock ahead of us. |
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| Local Mennonite brothers |
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| Top of the Lift Mike and I ate lunch at a Pub down the road and watched the Canada Day Parade from the window. We then walked to the Canoe Museum, the largest in Canada. Very interesting; canoes from burnt out Indian canoes to beautiful wooden and modern day Olympic racing canoes. |
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| When in Rome...Lori and I got in the spirit of Canada Day. |
About the time we got back to the boat it started to rain. We felt so sorry for all the food vendors that set up at the marina park. But they seemed to take it in stride. Along the Great Loop Route, there are what are called Harbor Hosts. They are not in every city, but sprinkled along the way. The hosts here always put on a huge "docktails" party every year for Canada Day. Freya and Don do all the cooking and provide the wine and beer. They usually do it on their boat dock but with the rain and so many Loopers in attendance, they moved it to the restaurant. There must have been 30 couples there, many we had not met before. It was a fun night of camaraderie and sharing stories of the waterways.
Saturday, we said good bye to Morningstar II and Cutty's Ark. A group of Loopers had our photo taken for the local paper then we walked to a great farmer's market. There were a ton of vegetables and fruit grown from little villages and nearby towns. We wanted to buy more but just don't have the room. The Niagara Falls cherries and local strawberries are super sweet.
There was another concert this night, a local hard rock band, which we skipped.
The rest of the day was spent relaxing, reading and working on the Blog. We had fajita's made with leftover steak, which were quite good.
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