Bobcaygeon, Lovesick, and Lakefield, 2014

 Peter had time for his morning walk before breakfast so he made it productive by walking to a gas station to get some diesel for the boat. The cart affair makes his life a lot easier. Carrying a 5 gallon can of gas for any distance hurts the body.

Another short walk to the restaurant, Cup Half Full, where they serve peameal bacon that is more like a steak.

It is good to be travelling with Bob and Linda again. Pigeon Lake to Buckhorn. In photo we are locking thru at Buckhorn.

 Bob and Linda have a pretty boat. Mainship Pilot. Pretty on the water. And it can get up an go also. He sometimes needs to speed ahead of us to keep things working well on his boat.

We have been blessed with an abundance of wildlife as we travel. If you look closely you can see a dragonfly flying along with us inside the flybridge. She is close to the shifters.

 By the time we were pulling into the Lovesick wall to tie up for the evening, we looked up and Jim and Linda Murray aboard Symmetry were coming from the Burleigh Falls side. They were going thru the Burleigh Falls lock as we were going thru Buckhorn lock and we arrived at exactly the same time. It was good to have almost everyone together. We spent the afternoon with everyone sharing experiences since we were last together. We joined forces for dinner and enjoyed dinner on the lawn until the mosquitoes chased us back into our boats. And the mosquitoes were fierce the first night till we learned to fend  them  off better with the Off Lantern and the likes. The second night we were better prepared for the mosquito onslaught.  Linda Murray is convinced she is the "feeding station" for them. And she is pretty marked up.

Steve, Linda and Becky just arrived by boat to Lovesick as we were being asked to leave. We can't complain, we had spent 2 nights on the wall at Lovesick and were only to spend 1 night. It was a brief reunion and we were off for Burleigh Falls Lock. Jim and Linda Murray had to become very creative with a picnic table to act as their boarding system for their area of the lock wall. Quite ingenious! "Necessity, is the mother of invention"

Steve, Linda and Becky spent the day at Lovesick, there favourite spot on the Trent, fishing. They joined us at Burleigh Falls after dinner. Here they are approaching. They tied to the blue line rather than use their favourite floating dock; "Deja Vu". Their rental car was already in the parking lot, ready for Becky's 8 am departure for Toronto Airport and her return flight to Californa. We were sorry not to have more time to spend with Becky. She seems like a fun young lady. But of course we would expect nothing less as a child of Steve and Linda. What a great family. Next year Becky, we hope to get to know you better.

 After our goodbyes to Becky we were off for breakfast at a restaurant just beyond the falls. Finally all of our boating friends are together again. We have been so fortunate to meet these people and share boating time with them.

We then were off for Lakefield Marina and lock.  It once again was the perfect day to be on the water. Youngs Point Lock was a bit hectic. While we were standing of waiting for the lock to bring boats up and receive us, we had a number of smaller power boats with no boating courtesy that passed us and moved ahead of us. One of them rudely proceeded into the lock ahead of our boat. The second one started to move ahead of us and then he asked if we were going into the lock. Dughhhh! YES! He backed off and let us enter. I felt like saying, Oh no we like to just try to stay on station with 20 or 30 boats milling around us in front of the lock fighting the dam current for a practice session on how difficult can boating become. It is too bad when the cityots come to vacation country and bring their horrible driving skills out onto the water. The boating course for your boating license should include some common sense courtesy information. Oh well, all in a weekend days boating.

Leaving Burleigh Falls for Lakefield Marina and lock. Green hulled Maine Ship Pilot, "Waypoint" Bob and Linda Wilkens, white hulled Symbol, "Symmetry", Jim and Linda Murray. Steve and Linda Franko aboard "Guppy" Bayliner were already off to find a fishing hole. We had a short hop off to Lakefield and to the Marina. Power and air conditioning, YEAH!!!! It has been hot and humid and it will be great to have a shower and cool the boat down. The marina was having a BBQ with music. Bring an appetizer or salad and join them. And we did. The food as always was great, the guitarist was very talented with a repetoir of over 2000 songs. He entertained us from 5 pm to 9.30 pm. Then once again the mosquites wanted to feed and chased the humans inside their boats. It was well after "boaters midnight" so time to go to be anyway. Everyone seems to be enjoying themselves here, we think we will probably all stay another day.