As planned, we left the Narrows to go to Westport, ate lunch, and returned to exactly where we started but facing the other way. We started the morning with pea meal bacon, apparently the real deal for what we refer to as Canadian bacon. (it’s thin slices of pork in corn meal). After “locking-thru” we motored to Westport. The most exciting part was not noticing the channel markers as we were coming into the town dock, but fortunately there were enough people screaming at us that we didn’t go aground before getting into the channel. Westport is a lovely town, the ice cream parlor was closed for school break(?) but the local brewery was in full swing.
Now that we are on the fall schedule, the latest that we could “lock-thru” was 4:15, but we made it back and managed to “lock-thru” with 5 of our new best friends.
Tomorrow, despite the chance of rain, will be our last day on the channel. We motor back to Smiths Falls so we can be there before 9:00 AM the next day. Back to the math problems, there is a lock just before Smiths Falls that doesn’t open until 10:00, so you need to get there the night before! I’m sure there is some sort of cosmic logic to all this, but if it were me… you shouldn’t make all our customers start their trip after all the locks were closed and end their trip before all the locks were open. There, I’ve said my peace, I feel better…well not actually.
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