Fenelon Falls was a great stop. We didn't plan to stay there, but with the rain coming elected to stop early. Glad we did. Now, on to Talbot.

We traveled through the ditch after Fenelon Falls, which was clearly just dug through the flagstone/shale (not sure) surface. You can see the piles of the spoils all along the ditch. Here are a few pictures of the edges, where the rocks are. Its really sit up and pay attention stuff. If you stay in the middle, you're pretty safe, but the edges are brutal. I can only imagine. We went through Canal Lake and hit this stuff in the middle of the channel.

The great part about this leg of the journey is that the Kirkfield Lock is on it. We took a few hours out of the day and experienced the 2nd largest hydraulic lift lock in the world - the Kirkfield Lock. It broke last year, and they considered not opening it at all, which would have meant that we couldn't go this way. That would have been awful, so I'm happy that Parks Canada funded the multi-million dollar project. They only have half of it functioning, so more to do, but at least we got through. We had to wait quite a while, so I got lots of pictures. The lock sits on top of a highway, which seems bizarre, but its true. This lock is 'only' a 49 ft lift, compared to the 65' of the Peterborough, but its still tall. It also took a very long time to manually pump the water to move the lock, but still worth it.

The highway under the lock

Looking down the lock from above

You can walk down to the road - if you want to.

The southbound boat it finally up! Now we can all load.

Here we all are, in the tub, waiting to go down. Not much to do, so George is just sitting in a lawn chair on the bow of the boat.

It was a quick trip from there to the wall at Talbot. We tied up before going through, which means there is a view. Here are a few pictures of the trip there.

As always, more pictures in the photo section of this blog.