Saturday, May 26

Coming out of Ranney Falls Locks 11/12

Bottom of Ranney Falls Locks 11/12

Entrance to Trent-Severn Waterway

Today we left Kingston and headed out onto Lake Ontario.  It was great to open the throttle of the White Label on the perfectly calm water......... finally we would be making some headway on our journey.  We traveled eighty miles to Trenton, Ontario where we entered the Trent -Severn Waterway.  The Waterway was built in stages beginning in 1833 and completed 87 years later, in 1920.   Through a series of streams, rivers and lakes, it connects Lake Ontario to Georgian Bay/Lake Huron.  It is 240-miles long and has 44 locks - some of which are especially noteworthy.
Today's cruise would be in the "ok" category ...........  the highlight being the Ranney Falls Locks 11/12.
In these flight locks, you move out of the first one and directly into the next one after the gate opens.  There is a 48-foot rise and when you come out from "the hole" it is quite dramatic.   Passing through twelve locks and twenty- two miles into the Waterway we pulled up to the City Wall in Campbellford - not a terribly exciting place to be on a Saturday night (no music, nasty looking Chinese restaurants -which went unsampled-  but decent BBQ).......... oh well!

Sharing a breakfast croissant with our friends