Monday - July 25, 201`1

Lat 44 18 50; long 77 57 43; eng 976.15 fuel 213 gallons – Hastings

We said goodbye to our new friends from Australia. We left them waiting for their water pump and gave them the name of South Bay Cove, should they be looking for a marina when they get to Georgian Bay and hopefully we would see them there. Our journey today took us across Rice Lake and up the Otonabee River past Peterborough where we went through the Peterborough Lift Lock. A very interesting experience as you just tie up and wait for the tub to go up rather than the lock to fill with water to take you to the next level. The water is already in the the tub. They put a little more water in the second tub which is even with the upper level water and this extra weight causes it to descend while lifting the tub that your boat is in. It is quite a sight looking down from the top after the lift has occurred.

The scenery remains quite pretty as we move along and it is quite wild. However there are a lot of cottages along the route also.

Around 4:30 we stopped at Lakefield, a nice little town in the Kawarthas. You may also have heard of it because Prince Andrew went to school at Lakefield College. A walk around town indicated there were some interesting stores, particularly a few craft stores and an antique store which had a lot of old bottles.