Another Glorious day on the Rideau 44◦58'.965N 075◦47'.161W

We have had another glorious day today, although we certainly earned our keep. From lock 29A to lock 17. Man I'm tired just writing about it.  The wind picked up a bit as we arrived to Burritt's rapids and we struggled quite a bit to get ourselves tied up securely for the night. Merrickville was also a treat, but mostly because the locks were malfunctioning. We made it through and that's all that matters. This is a very cute little town, so we are likely to stop there when we come back this way.

Our day was filled with locks and nature. Starting with our little family of geese. Finally got a shot of the little fellows.

Then in Merrickville we saw a turtle on the ledge of one of the lock doors. I was completely afraid for this little guy. The current was trying to push this little guy off and it finally succeeded. When the turtle fell off the ledge, landed on his back and then flipped himself over, I thought for sure he was injured, so I pointed him out to the lock guy so he could maybe retrieve him. He just kind of laughed at me and said, "Don't worry about him ma'am. These little turtles do this all the time. He'll be fine"

Ok, OK so I'm a softy...don't hold that against me.

Anyway now we are tied up at the Burritts Rapids lower wall and we have no lock in sight for the next 26 miles. That's 3 hrs away in boat time. We are right beside a polo field, so we spent our evening watching a man and his horse practice for what I assume is their next match.

This is a lovely place, but unfortunately the actual docks are not yet completed, which means we had to tie up to a floating dock, tied to shore by a smallish chain. There are no cleats on the dock, just some metal braces with holes in them. Just right to saw through our lines. We ended up having to cut some pieces of hoses so we could protect our lines. All in a day's work!

We now can get an early start tomorrow am and should make it to our next lock by opening time, around 10am. This would place us in Ottawa somewhere in early afternoon. Who hoo!

Time for me to say good night now, since Jim will have us up and going again by 7am.

Night all.

Our sunset tonight