Kingston, Ontario Canada (Day 78)

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This is a red letter day.  We crossed Lake Ontario to Kingston Ontario, CANADA!

We had a buddy boat today.  We met these folks back in Little Falls on Rose Cottage. The seas were calm and although they left earlier than we did we easily caught up.

Susie has a really great camera and shared some great photos of our boat with us.  This is where we crossed into Canadian waters. Mike is putting up our quarantine burgee.  Theirs is up on their bridge. We will change to the Canadian courtesy flag once we pass customs.

We took the lead and you can see many windmills on shore.

At the Confederation Basin Marina, you can see the Martello tower in the background and our lovely photographer. There are six Martello towers in Kingston.  They were built to defend Kingston from ”the Americans.”

We were able to meet up with Ben and Chantale Hagar, Gold loopers, who advised us extensively before we began the loop. It was great to see them.  They loved the North Channel of the Loop so much they chartered a boat and did it again.

Kingston is an adorable town.  Chris in the visitors center gave us great advice to get the most out of our visit.

We took a trolley tour and our photos may be a bit blurred.  They call Kingston a city of forts.  On the left are the remains of a “crudely built” French fort.  There is an English fort across the street but our photos were too blurry. Tho photo on the right is Fort Henry.  It has a dry moat.

The Royal Military College  (RMC) is here.  I actually was on a blind date with a cadet from RMC at West Point when I met Mike. I don’t remember his name so we didn’t look him up😊

We also had some closer views of Fort Henry.

This is looking back at RMC from the fort.

There were great views across the water of the marina and Kingstown in general.

This is the Kingston City Hall (quite impressive) and a really cute hotel.

The town is really old with many buildings dating back to the 1780s.


Queens  University is a large and beautiful campus. This is just one tower.  The school on the right is Sydenham Public School, one of the first schools with more than one classroom built in 1853.

This is an abandoned “Insane asylum,” now part of the Museum of Healthcare. They claim it is quite haunted.



Kingston Penitentiary is now a museum.  Our conductor told us the youngest inmate was 8 years old and was there for 4 years.

We ate dinner in town and were able to see the street entertainers after dinner.  There were jugglers, magicians and acrobats.  These two street artists reminded me of Burt from Mary Poppins.  The details were amazing and I imagine when it rains their artwork will be washed away. Great Day!

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