JACKIE B III Going Loopy

  We began to gather before the lock was open.  Eventually two more boats joined us.  The lock master put three boats in together.  Then We followed with four.   We were in like sardines.  But we made new friends on our way.  We ended up traveling like this together for 5 locks. It was a lot of work for me as I had to raise and lower fenders on different sides of the boats as some locks had port (left) side tie ups and others had starboard (right.)   Being the larger boat we always had the wall and the other boat rafted to us. These two rode along with us at every lock but one. (Yay , new friends!) Of course the scenery along the way was Gorgeous. After an extremely long day with so much locking, we all went to the local watering hole for happy hour and ended up back on our boat for movie night. We even had overnight guests as one of the boats with us is a center console with a bow tent and we had thunder storms over night. One of the best days so...

Being the last boat out, we were not able to travel with our new friends as we did not all fit in the lock together. We all started out together. We took our time and had to enjoy the swans. We arrived just in time to see them all go in the chamber. The water rushes out as they lower the water in the chamber so we can get out. But we went in and they raised us up. The photo above on the left is of the suspension bridge over the gorge. The doors for this lock are rather intimidating. So in we go and they closed the doors! We arrived in Campbellford and had a lovely lunch.  After lunch we went back to the gorge on our bicycles. This is the bridge and you can see the waterfall in the distance. Of course we have to figure out how we can get to the waterfall.  We climbed down into the river bed. ….and yes Mike did jump. All in all this was a pretty great day for a 40th wedding anniversary. Our Journey “Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins....