July 2, 2009
Today we are in Peterborough, ONT some ~1100 miles from Plymouth. We spent the last few days in Campbellford and Hastings.
Yesterday was “Canada Day”, their equivalent to the 4th of July. It was a throwback to the 1950’s with a local band at the gazebo, the ladies auxiliary serving hot dogs and burgers, and everybody sitting around on folding chairs enjoying the day.
The parade had bag pipers, old cars, tractors, and the contingent from the local fox hunt club. The fireworks were outstanding, not even taking into consideration that the town has 4000 residents. They had fireworks that they put off underwater, quite different and impressive.
Tomorrow we will continue west through the Peterborough Lift Lock into what they call the Kawartha Lakes region. This is a series of lakes in the Canadian Shield that are connected by a series of locks on the Trent-Severn. Do a Google on Peterborough Lift Lock. It is pretty interesting as an engineering achievement when it was built in 1904.
The weather has been, in total, outstanding. The days are very long at this latitude and where we are in the time zone, sun up at 5:30 and down at after 9 PM.
Life is good.
Today we are in Peterborough, ONT some ~1100 miles from Plymouth. We spent the last few days in Campbellford and Hastings.
Yesterday was “Canada Day”, their equivalent to the 4th of July. It was a throwback to the 1950’s with a local band at the gazebo, the ladies auxiliary serving hot dogs and burgers, and everybody sitting around on folding chairs enjoying the day.
The parade had bag pipers, old cars, tractors, and the contingent from the local fox hunt club. The fireworks were outstanding, not even taking into consideration that the town has 4000 residents. They had fireworks that they put off underwater, quite different and impressive.
Tomorrow we will continue west through the Peterborough Lift Lock into what they call the Kawartha Lakes region. This is a series of lakes in the Canadian Shield that are connected by a series of locks on the Trent-Severn. Do a Google on Peterborough Lift Lock. It is pretty interesting as an engineering achievement when it was built in 1904.
The weather has been, in total, outstanding. The days are very long at this latitude and where we are in the time zone, sun up at 5:30 and down at after 9 PM.
Life is good.
1 comment:
Hi David & Judi,
We took two photo's of you on Big Chute on Sunday. We were on the blue line behind you.
Please send me an e-mail address that I can use to send them to you.
Thanks
Colin & Judi Tootill
Nimbus
ctootill@nimbusgraphics.com
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