Port-Severn, ON
Thursday July 5th

Hope that our American friends had a great 4th of July celebration yesterday.

We made it through the Trent-Severn and 45 locks...we are at the mouth of the Geogian Bay.
Yesterday 4th of July was spend doing light travel to get positioned to start The Bay. We took "THE BIG CHUTE", a rail-road type of lock. Boat gets into slings and is lifted up, and the entire sling machine (a boat lift) travels on rail-road tracks across dry land and even across a road (!). At the end, the boat is lowered back in the water and floats away. Very neat and unique for us. I'll post pictures at a later time.

The scenery on the Trent-Severn has been very, very pretty since we passed Orillia: lots of blue waters, nice cottages, many of which are built on rocks or islands, some pink granite, and even narrow & deeper channels similar to Fjords in Norway. We are to see more of this on the Georgian Bay this month.

Boat is running fine...for now, until next event: It's a boat!&$^#@^&. Drinking water has been hard to find in the last week, so we are saving our fresh water tank (filtered and potable) and started taking showers in the water now that is is warmer. Quite pleasant actually, and you don't have to rush your shower to save water!

We are headed to our first island on the Georgian Bay today, Hope Island (Google it). At anchor from now on mostly; no more docks and no more locks.

So long to all.
Annick & Michael aboard Sirocco.